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Photo#95817
snipe fly - Sphecomyiella valida

snipe fly - Sphecomyiella valida
Swarthmore College, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 23, 1998
Size: 13.5mm
A somewhat worn rhagionid, I believe.

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Moved
Moved from Pyrgotidae.

Pyrgotidae
and not the most common species, Pyrgota undata, either. Lucky you.

 
Pyrgotid, but
I dont think it is P. undata. P. undata has wings that are a more solid coloring and not the mottled here, and Pyrgota also usually has a stump vein on R2+3 at about the same level as the crossvein dm-cu. McAlpine keys this out to either Sphecomyiella or Boreothrinax. It looks like it has ocellar setae, which would make it S. valida, but it doesnt look like that species in the guide. I will try to dig a little more through some specimens.