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| victorengel |
Posted on 26-04-2021 18:57
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Member Location: Posts: 95 Joined: 20.12.20 |
2.6mm - Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA. Attracted to UV light.
Edited by victorengel on 26-04-2021 18:57 |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 26-04-2021 19:43
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5259 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Looks like Chyromyidae; Gymnochiromyia sp. in BugGuide https://bugguide....iew/102702 |
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| victorengel |
Posted on 26-04-2021 20:21
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Member Location: Posts: 95 Joined: 20.12.20 |
Thanks. Interestingly, BG has no entries for Texas for that genus. I guess I'll upload this picture for identification there. |
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| victorengel |
Posted on 26-04-2021 20:38
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Member Location: Posts: 95 Joined: 20.12.20 |
What's up with the spellings? BG has a note on how to distinguish Gymnochiromyia from Chyromya. The first part, "gymno" obviously refers to the naked portion of the scutellum. So then why is the rest spelled differently? A screw-up on the part of the taxonomist? |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 26-04-2021 22:06
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 Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10219 Joined: 22.10.10 |
victorengel wrote: What's up with the spellings? BG has a note on how to distinguish Gymnochiromyia from Chyromya. The first part, "gymno" obviously refers to the naked portion of the scutellum. So then why is the rest spelled differently? A screw-up on the part of the taxonomist? In the early 1900s some spelled the name Chiromyia. |
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