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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Tangle-veined Flies (Nemestrinidae) » Neorhynchocephalus » Neorhynchocephalus sackenii
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Green-eyed fly on Buddleia - Neorhynchocephalus sackenii - female
Copyright © 2010 Robert A. Behrstock

Green-eyed fly on Buddleia - Neorhynchocephalus sackenii - Female
Hereford, W of Hwy. 92, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 19, 2010
A couple of these suddenly appeared on a Buddleia shrub. I don't recall seeing this species in previous years but could have missed one. Butterfly garden, 5,010' elev, oak-grassland interface, SE Huachuca Mts.

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Contributed by Robert A. Behrstock on 23 August, 2010 - 12:29am
Last updated 25 August, 2015 - 7:08pm

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Green-eyed fly on Buddleia
This fly is in the family Nemestrinidae. A guess would be Hirmoneura flavipes Williston. It is the right habitat for that species and I have collected it in that area. However, I would have to run it through a key to be certain. There is a revision by Bequaert (1934) Notes on American Nemestrinidae. Second Paper. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. Journal 42: 163-184.
… JBurger, 23 August, 2010 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

 
Looks a little different
I think this is H. flavipes:


Quoting the revision: "The most characteristic feature of [H. flavipes] is the conspicuous cross-band of grayish-white pollen at the base of the second tergite, followed by a wider shiny black band, the posterior half of the tergite being covered with dull, yellowish brown pollen. On the following tergites, the short hairs are mostly yellowish gray, mixed with a few black ones."
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