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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Cecidocharini » Procecidocharoides » Procecidocharoides penelope
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Spider Mimic Fly - Procecidocharoides penelope
Copyright © 2011 Betsy Betros

Spider Mimic Fly - Procecidocharoides penelope
McFarland Park, Story County, Iowa, USA
July 29, 2011
Came to mercury vapor light.
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Contributed by Betsy Betros on 30 October, 2011 - 10:07pm
Last updated 4 March, 2012 - 8:24am

Procecidocharoides penelope --det. G.J. Steck
Moved from Fruit Flies.
… v belov, 4 March, 2012 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Just went on Steck et al's Tephritid Flies of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park webpage...cool! Also, great...first photo for bugguide for Iowa for this species. I sure hope no one asks me to pronounce that genus name! :-)
… Betsy Betros, 4 March, 2012 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Martin Hauser, 2 November, 2011 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

Wonder if that seems as obvious to other insects
as it does to us. We always get tricked by the thumbnails of these guys. They look for all the world like a Jumping Spider until our brains unravel what we are actually seeing. Great shot!
… john and jane balaban, 31 October, 2011 - 10:33am login or register to post comments

 
Yep
No matter how much can be explained by evolution and genetics...it is still at times just unbelievable what nature is capable of!
… Betsy Betros, 2 November, 2011 - 1:37pm login or register to post comments

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