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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Crane Flies (Tipulomorpha) » Large Crane Flies (Tipulidae) » Ctenophorinae » Tanyptera » Tanyptera dorsalis
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Hymenoptera? - Tanyptera dorsalis
Copyright © 2011 David J. Nesbitt

Hymenoptera? - Tanyptera dorsalis
fillmore Glen State Park, Moravia, NY USA, Cayuga County, New York, USA
May 30, 2011
Size: Body 2 cm, ws 3 cm
Observed inserting ovipositor into moist rotting tree stump. Thought this was a bee, but find only one set of wings. Close examination reveals what appears to be a set of vestigial wings...and a split ovipositor... pro-abdomen orange...

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Contributed by David J. Nesbitt on 12 June, 2011 - 6:26pm
Last updated 27 June, 2011 - 9:04pm

Moved
Moved from Crane Flies.
… Chen Young, 27 June, 2011 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

Check
Check out the genus Ctenophora
… okeller, 12 June, 2011 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

winged Hymenoptera have two pair of wings
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 12 June, 2011 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

 
I know! That is the cause of
I know! That is the cause of my confusion! I collected and pinned, and found only one set of wings...
… David J. Nesbitt, 12 June, 2011 - 8:02pm login or register to post comments

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