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Photo#996022
ID Needed: Brown Fly - Eurosta comma

ID Needed: Brown Fly - Eurosta comma
Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
September 14, 2014
Size: 1 cm long
This is a brown fly, with a white face and greenish blue eyes. It's wings are distinctly brown and it has halteres. It was found in mans filed CT in a grass field.

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ID Needed: Brown Fly - Eurosta comma ID Needed: Brown Fly - Eurosta comma ID Needed: Brown Fly - Eurosta comma

Moved
Moved from Fruit Flies.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

ID
Definitely in the Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) Subfamily.

 
Tephritidae
This was my first thought. It's quite large though.

 
Hmmm... it appears to be...
Eurosta comma. The green eyes are throwing me though. It is a dead specimen, correct? The color could be from being dried out.
I reciently had a photography session with a few of these, and they are rather large considering they are in the fruit fly family.

 
Eyes
Interesting and thank you! It is dead but within the last 24 hours. I have another specimen I am about to add to bug guide that is baffling me. I believe it to be Hemiptera. Stay tuned.

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