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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sphaeroceroidea » Lesser Dung Flies (Sphaeroceridae) » Limosininae
Photo#505653
Phorid?
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Phorid?
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 14, 2011
Size: ~1.5mm
Found near the compost pile.
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Contributed by tom murray on 14 April, 2011 - 8:56pm
Last updated 16 April, 2011 - 8:19pm

Moved
Definitely a limosinine, but not Leptocera. Probably not identifiable to genus from this photo.

Moved from Flies.
… Joel Kits, 16 April, 2011 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

Leptocera?
Resembles Leptocera (Sphaeroceridae). Do you have a shot showing the hind first tarsomere to confirm family?
… John F. Carr, 15 April, 2011 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Only one other shot
and the hind first tarsomere is out of focus.
… tom murray, 15 April, 2011 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

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