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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Lance Flies (Lonchaeidae)
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Tiny black fly
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Tiny black fly
Skokie, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 20, 2006
Size: ~3mm
We photographed this tiny fly sitting on Cotoneaster leaf in the backyard.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 28 May, 2006 - 3:05pm
Last updated 21 February, 2007 - 10:28pm

Moved
Moved from Acalyptratae.
… Keith Bayless, 21 February, 2007 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 20 February, 2007 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

Perhaps
one of these.
… Lynette Elliott, 28 May, 2006 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

 
We wondered about Lauxaniidae
especially with that heavy hunched back, but had just been tricked by Lonchaeidae such as and your so were being cautious.
… john and jane balaban, 28 May, 2006 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Yep
I can see what you mean.
… Lynette Elliott, 28 May, 2006 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

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