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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Trypetinae » Carpomyini » Carpomyina » Rhagoletis
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Distinctive fly at MV light - Rhagoletis
Copyright © 2014 Bill Hubick

Distinctive fly at MV light - Rhagoletis
Pasadena, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
August 29, 2014
At mercury vapor light.

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Contributed by Bill Hubick on 29 August, 2014 - 9:36pm
Last updated 1 September, 2014 - 7:13am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 1 September, 2014 - 7:13am login or register to post comments

Rhagoletis…
Bill, any Juniper species in the area?
… Ross Hill, 29 August, 2014 - 9:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
There are several Eastern Redcedars in the area, as well as ornamental arborvitae.
… Bill Hubick, 29 August, 2014 - 10:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Excellent…
The larvae of R. juniperina feed inside the fruit of Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar). They are fairly host specific to Juniper species. This fly appears to fit the description because the subbasal and discal wing crossbands appear to be separated in these images.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 29 August, 2014 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
R. juniperina?
just looks kind of like a Rhagoletis completa to me but maybe that is because we used to have walnut trees and had so many of them.
… Susan Dean, 29 August, 2014 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Added another image
Went back out with more extension tubes to try for more detail.
… Bill Hubick, 29 August, 2014 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

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