Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Charcoal gray Mojave muscid --> Anthomyiidae

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:21
#1
Hi all,

I collected this 5-mm muscid in the Mojave desert of California in a pitfall trap in early February of this year. Using Huckett 1975, it keys easily to Phaoninae, but I had trouble keying it to genus - got tentatively to Pogonomyia, but that doesn't seem right. Any ID help would be appreciated!

Thanks!
Ken
Edited by kschnei1000 on 04-04-2022 03:51

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:22
#2
Dorsal

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:23
#3
Wing
Edited by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:25

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:26
#4
Hind leg with three posterodorsal spines

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:27
#5
Sorry - can't seem to resize my images of the face and close up of the lateral thorax and head small enough to be posted here...
Edited by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 19:33

Posted by kschnei1000 on 03-04-2022 21:22
#6
Link to all six specimen images at iNaturalist here:

https://www.inatu.../110323556

Posted by John Carr on 03-04-2022 23:46
#7
Anthomyiidae

Posted by kschnei1000 on 04-04-2022 03:51
#8
thanks John - darn, did it again - keep forgetting which vein doesn't get to the wing margin in Muscidae, sorry all.