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Spotting

Description:

Fly hanging out on jaw of a possum

Habitat:

Mixed Woods

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2 Comments

chesterbperry
chesterbperry 11 years ago

thank you DrP, it is most likely that family will try to narrow to genus.

drP
drP 11 years ago

The shape of the head/antennae, and rows of hairs on the antennae look like this fly (family Heleomyzidae):
http://bugguide.net/node/view/14067

chesterbperry
Spotted by
chesterbperry

Tennessee, USA

Spotted on Feb 11, 2013
Submitted on Feb 20, 2013

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