Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lonchaeidae: Earomyia? -> Earomyia aberrans

Posted by Steve Scholnick on 19-03-2020 20:06
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Update: ID'd to Earomyia aberrans by Iain MacGown through dissection of genitalia. Thanks Iain!


This one appears to key out to Earomyia using the Manual of the Nearctic Diptera. In the Lonchaeidae Online key it resolves to couplet 5, Earomyia vs. Fulgenta, but the key says that latter is "Afrotropical only". One caveat is that the Lonchaeidae Online key describes Earomyia as "arista usually bare" but I'd call this fly's arista pubescent.

body length ~ 4mm

Thanks for the help

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Edited by Steve Scholnick on 09-10-2022 22:54