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 Long Tarsi; What Family?
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| Stephen |
Posted on 24-10-2006 11:18
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Long Tarsi on this fly! Length about 4.6. Photographed along a stream near a lake, West Virginia, USA, 11 July 2006. What family? Thanks for any help! Stephen attached the following image:  [175.01Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 24-10-2006 12:03
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Hi Stephen. I think it is cf same fly  as inhttp://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=3909 Place is very much the same too, I think same genus. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 24-10-2006 12:23
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Looks like it - Limnophora Ten species in U.S.A. Robert |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 24-10-2006 13:00
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Nikita, Robert, Thanks very much for your help with this one. Nikita, it is nice that although we are thousands of miles apart (forgive my non-metric measurement!) we are seeing nearly the same fly! --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 24-10-2006 13:32
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
The fly shown below was taken high in the mountains, about a 90 minute drive from where I photographed the original fly on this page. The two flies were photographed about a month apart (the fly below on 16 August 2006). I posted the image below once before and folks here at diptera.info ID'd it to family, Muscidae. Is it safe to say that both flies on this page, like the one photographed by Nikita, are in genus Limnophora? Stephen attached the following image:  [124.53Kb] Edited by Stephen on 24-10-2006 13:34 --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 24-10-2006 22:43
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7286 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Yes, I'd say Limnophora for this one too.
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 24-10-2006 22:52
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Thanks, Tony, and thanks again Nikita and Robert!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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