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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Conopinae » Physoconops » Subgenus Physoconops (Physoconops Subgenus Physoconops) » Physoconops discalis
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Specimen from the Essig Museum - Physoconops discalis - female
Copyright © 2014 Aaron Schusteff

Specimen from the Essig Museum - Physoconops discalis - Female
7-10 miles S.E. of Sonoita; Hwy 83, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 24, 1977
Detail of wing. Note the pattern of infuscation. The 1st basal cell and 1st posterior cell are hyaline (except for a streak along the "spurious vein"), as is the entire wing beyond those cells. Moreover, the portion of the wing anterior to R4+5 is rather uniformly darkened (except for the costal cell).

(In P. analis, the cells anterior of R2+3 are significantly lighter to hyaline.)

Click the thumbnail below for a detailed explanation of wing venation terminology for members of the subfamily Conopinae:

 

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 2 March, 2014 - 2:53am
Last updated 8 August, 2018 - 12:24am

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