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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Eutretini » Paracantha » Paracantha culta
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Thistle Guest - Paracantha culta
Copyright © 2011 Gacko

Thistle Guest - Paracantha culta
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
May 25, 2011
Is it safe to assume that the Paracantha flies that I find on thistles in my neighborhood field each spring will be P. cultis?

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Contributed by Gacko on 30 May, 2011 - 5:20pm

Moved
Moved from Paracantha.
… Gacko, 30 May, 2011 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

See also P. gentilis
You also have Paracantha gentilis on thistle in your area. P. culta can be distinguished by the large black spots along the inner edge of the eye near the antenna base, as seen here. Those spots are smaller and round in P. gentilis.(1)
… John F. Carr, 30 May, 2011 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for that information...
sorry about my Latin endings! I'll move this image with this information to the Guide page.
… Gacko, 30 May, 2011 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Imagine that!
Can't even tell the difference between basic 1st/2nd- and 3rd-declension adjectives- what has the world come to? Zounds! Egad! Harrrumph!!!

;-)
… Chuck Entz, 30 May, 2011 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

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