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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Conopinae » Physoconops » Subgenus Pachyconops (Physoconops Subgenus Pachyconops)
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?bee or fly - Physoconops - female
Copyright © 2014 jim urbach

?bee or fly - Physoconops - Female
sanford, seminole County, Florida, USA
September 21, 2014
Size: <1 inch
hope this helps with the ID,

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?bee or fly - Physoconops - female ?bee or fly - Physoconops - female
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Contributed by jim urbach on 22 September, 2014 - 5:10am
Last updated 12 May, 2020 - 12:13am

Moved
Moved from Florida Physoconops.
… Arturo Santos, 12 May, 2020 - 12:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pachyconops.

Thanks for adding this 2nd image to the post, Jim. It's very difficult to get a photo from just the right angle in the field for showing the facial grooves...especially when the mouthparts are folded up and the flap-like facial ridges pretty much enclose and obscure the facial grooves, as appears to be the case here.

But even though I can't clearly discern the facial grooves here, I'm convinced this is P. floridanus due to the theca being "distinctly longer than the height of its tergite" (cf. key near end of Camras (2007)), as well as the red on the cheeks. It also fits well with the description of P. floridanus in Camras (1955).
… Aaron Schusteff, 23 September, 2014 - 11:49pm login or register to post comments

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