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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae » Xylophagus » Subgenus Archimyia (Xylophagus Subgenus Archimyia) » Xylophagus reflectens
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Large Fly laying eggs - Xylophagus reflectens - female
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Large Fly laying eggs - Xylophagus reflectens - Female
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 5, 2006
Size: 15mm
Found this fly in a wet woodland. Looks like it's laying eggs.
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Contributed by tom murray on 6 May, 2006 - 8:13am
Last updated 24 May, 2006 - 8:42pm

Xylophagidae: Xylophagus sp.
Xylophagidae: Xylophagus sp.
… Norm Woodley, 24 May, 2006 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

Xylophagidae: Xylophagus reflectens
After looking at Jim's dark "Xylomya", this looks convincingly to be in a different, but close, family --> Xylophagidae.
… Donald S. Chandler, 23 May, 2006 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

I think it's the same species
as I photographed a couple days ago. I haven't moved it to family yet.

Don Chandler would probably be interested, but I'll bet you didn't collect it.
… Jim McClarin, 6 May, 2006 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

 
We keep getting the same insects
It sure looks like yours, and I didn't collect it. I left her to do her business. I did collect some of the beetles though.
… tom murray, 6 May, 2006 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

 
It looks like a different species to me.
Jim's had a lot of orange on the abdomen, this one looks different. There are several species of Xylomya here, all rare. C'est la vie.
… Donald S. Chandler, 6 May, 2006 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Not this one, Don.
It's got a black abdomen. My first one had orange on its abdomen. I took underside shots after it died and was pickled. I've just posted one.
… Jim McClarin, 6 May, 2006 - 10:06pm login or register to post comments

Superb shot
Of a female Xylomyid fly (family Xylomyidae), actually laying her eggs in rotten wood. The mimicry with a Pimpline Ichneumon wasp is obvious: that's what makes such Dipterans esthetically attractive :-).
… Richard Vernier, 6 May, 2006 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Richard
She was intent on egg laying, and let me get nice and close.
… tom murray, 6 May, 2006 - 8:49am login or register to post comments

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