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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Don't know anything beyond diptera on this one...

Posted by Graham Montgomery on 11-10-2007 00:33

Thanks for taking a look. Found at the Wright Brothers Memorial in coastal North Carolina, USA on the sidewalk next to a very large field. There was a small drainage ditch with some water in it near where this individual was found. Thanks for the help! Found July 7, 2007.

Edited by Graham Montgomery on 11-10-2007 00:34

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-10-2007 00:40

wow! just amazing fly! I saw this somewhere! I will dig for this.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-10-2007 01:13

it seems to be a calyptrate fly.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-10-2007 07:39

I'd put my money on Ephydridae.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-10-2007 10:13

hmm... another mistake. it seems to have calypters!

ok.
Is it could be a Parydra??

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2007 10:16

I have alike large Ephydridae from Thailand.
Still isn't determinated even to genus

Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2007 10:17

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-10-2007 12:09

Paul Beuk wrote:
I'd put my money on Ephydridae.

I asked Wayne Mathis, a North American Ephydrid specialist. He said:

Nice shot of Paralimna punctipennis (Wiedemann), which is a fairly common species here in eastern North America. Nice photo.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-10-2007 12:10

new for gallery.

put this one.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2007 13:23

Nice shot of Paralimna punctipennis (Wiedemann), which is a fairly common species here in eastern North America. Nice photo.

Paul, could you tell my, Dr.Mathis's comment concerning only first image or both?
Nikita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-10-2007 13:35

#10

I think it may have referred to the first image only...

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2007 13:44

#11

It's a pity

Posted by Graham Montgomery on 16-10-2007 02:03

#12

Thanks everyone. This a great site! I'm glad to get an ID on this fly. Thanks again!

Edited by Graham Montgomery on 16-10-2007 02:06