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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Black Flies (Simuliidae) » Simulium
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Black Fly Simulium male? - Simulium - male
Copyright © 2012 Betsy Betros

Black Fly Simulium male? - Simulium - Male
Lenexa, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
April 14, 2012
Size: ~2.5mm
Came to a MVL in a woodland/remnant tallgrass prairie area.
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Contributed by Betsy Betros on 16 December, 2012 - 1:11pm
Last updated 18 October, 2013 - 7:47pm

It is a male Simulium vittatu
It is a male Simulium vittatum species complex... which means it could either be Simulium vittatum or Simulium tribulatum or another sister to the species that has the same scutal plate pattern. It is definitely a Simulium.
… VectorKim, 17 December, 2014 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Black Flies.
… John F. Carr, 18 October, 2013 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

Probably Simulium
Probably Simulium because it has a color pattern.
… John F. Carr, 13 February, 2013 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 24 December, 2012 - 12:52am login or register to post comments

There are quite a few flies with big red eyes
… john and jane balaban, 16 December, 2012 - 1:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Hummm....
those two examples both have aristate antennae. I got my idea that it might be a male simulid in Marshall's new book: Flies on page 159.
But...I sure can't say for sure. :-)
I wonder what it is about big red eyes that would be an advantage to a fly?
… Betsy Betros, 16 December, 2012 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

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