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fly-phorid? - Apocephalus
Copyright © 2010 Lynn Bergen

fly-phorid? - Apocephalus
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
July 5, 2010
Size: tiny

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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 6 July, 2010 - 11:29am
Last updated 11 July, 2010 - 8:15pm

Moved
Moved from Ant-decapitating Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 11 July, 2010 - 8:15pm

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Moved from Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 6 July, 2010 - 1:55pm

 
ID
This is a male Apocephalus (Mesophora) sp. I'd need to see the specimen to identify to species.

Nice shots- a rarely seen fly!

Brian
… Brian V. Brown, 11 July, 2010 - 6:20pm

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