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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Coenosiinae » Coenosiini » Caricea
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Small fly feeding on cecidomyiid midge, Edmonton, AB - Caricea
Copyright © 2011 HC Proctor

Small fly feeding on cecidomyiid midge, Edmonton, AB - Caricea
Edmonton, Strathcona, Alberta, Canada
July 10, 2009
Size: a few milimetres
This small [calyptrate] fly was feeding on a cecidomyiid midge in an urban backyard. Did not observe it catching the midge, but it looks suspicious. Two images available.

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Small fly feeding on cecidomyiid midge, Edmonton, AB - Caricea Small fly feeding on cecidomyiid midge, Edmonton, AB - Caricea
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Contributed by Dave Walter on 29 October, 2011 - 1:34pm
Last updated 21 October, 2012 - 9:41pm

Moved
Moved from Coenosiinae.

Caricea alma or tinctinervis.
… John F. Carr, 21 October, 2012 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 15 April, 2012 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 3 November, 2011 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

Coenosiinae?
Maybe Coenosiinae.
… John F. Carr, 29 October, 2011 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

 
fly feeding on midge
Sounds reasonable and it probably is a calyptrate, not acalyptrate as previously thought.
… Dave Walter, 1 November, 2011 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

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