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Fly - Rivellia wulpiana

Fly - Rivellia wulpiana
Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 31, 2010
Size: Length 3 mm.
Elevation 5,000. ft.
Oak-Juniper Woodland.

Moved tentatively
Moved from Tephritoidea.

From the general appearance,
From the general appearance, this looks like a Rivellia sp., although it does not seem to have the typical shape of vein M bordering cell dm (I can't see the venation very well since the pattern is so dark). The wing looks a lot like that of R. wulpiana Hendel (see Wulp 1898 (Biologia Centr.-Amer.), Tab. X, fig. 11, which Wulp identified as Rivellia conjuncta Loew), although the dark bands are broader in the photographed specimen.

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