Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 British Columbia fly on seaweed, what family?
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| Stephen |
Posted on 04-12-2010 11:08
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In Vancouver on the beach, British Columbia, Canada, 5 July 2009. This fly was walking over seaweed and sea shells. Can someone tell me the family?
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| Stephen |
Posted on 04-12-2010 11:11
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Detail of the head.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 04-12-2010 14:18
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very possibly Anthomyiidae. |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 04-12-2011 17:19
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Fucellia apicalis - note darkened tip of wing to which the name refers |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 11-12-2011 13:26
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
No one has picked this up. I did not receive a reply from the author. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 11-12-2011 16:26
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Should be in the Gallery!
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 14-01-2012 17:05
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Sorry for the delay, thank-you, I am moving this to the Gallery!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 14-01-2012 17:06
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Sorry for the delay, thank-you, I am submitting this for the Gallery!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| bradbarnd |
Posted on 14-01-2012 20:01
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Stephen, I hope you'll add this to BugGuide.net as well.  |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 30-10-2012 02:07
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I have not found any record of Fucellia apicalis in North America. Huckett (1965) listed Fucellia pictipennis from northern Canada with similar wing marking. Apicalis was described from China in 1908 and pictipennis from Greenland in 1907. Is apicalis the correct name for Pacific populations previously misidentified as pictipennis? |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 05-11-2012 14:24
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
John, well, no one has chimed in on this. The Stone catalog of North American diptera does not list apicalis, and you're right, the range of pictipennis comes near: Alaska, Yukon, NWT. The photo of F. pictipennis at BOLD seems a bit different. Maybe safest just to say Fucellia sp. unless you have some literature on the genus. Thanks for pointing this out, I will check to make sure my pics in the diptera.info gallery and BG are okay on this.
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| John Carr |
Posted on 25-10-2025 18:42
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The presence of Fucellia apicalis near Vancouver has now been published: https://doi.org/1...-2024-0091. |
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