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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » March Flies (Bibionidae) » Dilophus » Dilophus stigmaterus
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Black With Large Red Eyes - Dilophus stigmaterus - male
Copyright © 2011 Mardon Erbland

Black With Large Red Eyes - Dilophus stigmaterus - Male
47.63051N 52.68758W (WGS84), Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 1, 2011
Size: 6mm head to wing tips
Found sitting on the outside of our house.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 1 July, 2011 - 1:43pm
Last updated 1 July, 2011 - 4:07pm

Moved
Moved from Dilophus.
… John F. Carr, 1 July, 2011 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.

Maybe Dilophus stigmaterus. Do you have a clearer shot of the "nose" showing how long it is relative to rest of head?
… John F. Carr, 1 July, 2011 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

 
antennal bases are right at a
antennal bases are right at apex of eyes... is that consistent with stigmaterus?
… Even Dankowicz, 2 April, 2021 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Don't know
The length of the part to which the antenna attaches matches the illustration in Hardy (1958) but the antennae attach closer to the base. I don't know if that segment can move relative to the head.
… John F. Carr, 5 April, 2021 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

 
What illustration in Hardy (1
What illustration in Hardy (1958) do you have in mind? The illustrations I found for this species there are only of the terminalia in dorsoventral view.
… Even Dankowicz, 13 June, 2021 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

 
28c
Figure 28c.
… John F. Carr, 13 June, 2021 - 3:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh, I see--
I was looking in the wrong paper. Not sure I have 1958.
… Even Dankowicz, 13 June, 2021 - 4:09pm login or register to post comments

 
I've added another image but...
it's probably not clear enough for what you've requested. See image: MEM4012485. Thanks for the ID.
… Mardon Erbland, 1 July, 2011 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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