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Small Fly - Minettia lupulina - female

Small Fly - Minettia lupulina - Female
Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
September 20, 2013
Size: 4mm body
This looks to me like Minettia lupulina. Hope someone who knows flies can help ID. Found in a net sweep in a blackberry and goldenrod patch.

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Small Fly - Minettia lupulina - female Small Fly - Minettia lupulina - female

Moved
Moved from Lauxaniidae.

Probably
It is not any Eastern species of Minettia other than lupulina.

hope Dr Gaimari will get back to them soon
Moved from "Acalyptratae".

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