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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Marsh Flies, Snail-killing Flies (Sciomyzidae) » Tetanocerini » Dictya » Dictya pictipes
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Marsh Fly - Dictya pictipes
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Marsh Fly - Dictya pictipes
West Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 6, 2012
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Contributed by tom murray on 6 August, 2012 - 9:39pm
Last updated 31 August, 2012 - 4:48pm

Moved
Moved from Dictya.
Identified from specimen by Bill Murphy.
… tom murray, 31 August, 2012 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

Dictya sp.
In the genus Dictya, in the Western Hemisphere only D. ptyarion Steyskal can be identified without dissecting the genitalia. In the Old World, the sole Dictya is D. umbrarum, so identification is effortless.
… Bill Murphy (William L.), 10 August, 2012 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Dictya sp.
Bill I saved this specimen and a few others. I can send them to you if you still want to look at them.
… tom murray, 10 August, 2012 - 2:04pm login or register to post comments

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