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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Pegomya group » Eutrichota » affinis section (Eutrichota affinis section) » Eutrichota gopheri
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fly from gopher tortoise commensal trap - Eutrichota gopheri - female
Copyright © 2011 David Almquist

fly from gopher tortoise commensal trap - Eutrichota gopheri - Female
near Inverness, Sumter County, Florida, USA
June 9, 2011

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fly from gopher tortoise commensal trap - Eutrichota gopheri - female fly from gopher tortoise commensal trap - Eutrichota gopheri - female
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Contributed by David Almquist on 14 June, 2011 - 10:34pm
Last updated 4 January, 2013 - 8:28pm

Moved
Moved from Eutrichota.
… John F. Carr, 4 January, 2013 - 8:27pm login or register to post comments

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… David Almquist, 15 June, 2011 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

Eutrichota gopheri
It appears that this is Eutrichota gopheri.
… David Almquist, 15 June, 2011 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

 
ID?
How did you identify this fly? It seems to be near Eutrichota gopheri (missing pre-alar, similar color pattern), but according to Griffiths' revision the legs of E. gopheri should be entirely yellow, including tarsi.
… John F. Carr, 1 January, 2013 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm not sure exactly how I ID'd it.
Are the tarsi supposed to be yellow in both sexes, or could there be some dimorphism?
… David Almquist, 4 January, 2013 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Should be yellow
Griffiths explicitly says the tarsi of the male are yellow, lists color differences in female, and says the female is otherwise like the male.

Given the other similarities and the habitat I have to agree with your ID and call the dark tarsi an allowable variation. Griffiths had no credible records of any Eutrichota from a non-rodent burrow except E. gopheri from gopher tortoise burrows.
… John F. Carr, 4 January, 2013 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

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