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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Dolichopodinae » Dolichopus
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Insect on leaf (with a Pacific Tree Frog) - Dolichopus
Copyright © 2012 Sally Rae Kimmel

Insect on leaf (with a Pacific Tree Frog) - Dolichopus
Vallejo, California, USA
November 3, 2012
I am trying to identify this insect on a leaf in front of a Pacific Tree Frog, (which I have now cropped out of the photo). Thank you!
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Contributed by Sally Rae Kimmel on 4 November, 2012 - 12:02pm
Last updated 18 April, 2023 - 1:16pm

Moved
Moved from Longlegged Flies.
… Zachary Dankowicz, 18 April, 2023 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

Dolichopus?
If that black on the fore leg is real and not a shadow, this is probably a male Dolichopus. Many of them have ornamented legs to catch the attention of lady flies.
… John F. Carr, 7 November, 2012 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 7 November, 2012 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

It would be much more helpful...
...to have a close-up of just the fly. You could always estimate the size, or just leave the size field blank.

Only you and the editors have the ability to "zoom in" and view the full-size image.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 November, 2012 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Sorry! Thank you! I didn't r
Sorry! Thank you! I didn't realize that zooming in was not possible. I appreciate you taking the time to help.
… Sally Rae Kimmel, 4 November, 2012 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
just put the size in the size field (if known) and crop to "just the bug". Two objects of unknown size don't really help... is the frog there to let us know how big the fly is or is the fly there to let us know how big the frog is? All it really shows is that some fly is smaller than some frog. That is the reason we have a size field.
… John R. Maxwell, 4 November, 2012 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

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