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This fly lacks a common English name, but the scientific one is Graphomya maculata where "maculata" refers to the black spots on it. The female has the same matte grey base coat all over but males like this one instead have an orange abdomen.

The flower it has landed on is known as the great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) and is a virtual magnet for bugs.

I've put together an album with all my shots of bugs on this flower here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/albums/72157705562389611/

The flower here is known as the great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) in English. The Swedish name "blodtopp" - blood top - is a bit more descriptive though. Long green stalks, crowned with a compact flower in a lovely deep red hue. And each plant has loads of 'em.

Here it is a female of a small species of fly known as Graphomya maculata (no common English name).

These are quite easy to sex as the males have a partly orange abdomen.

Three shots of the males here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53926970581/

here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53938170908/

and here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54159511253/

This fly lacks a common English name, but the scientific one is Graphomya maculata where "maculata" refers to the black spots on it. The female has the same matte grey base coat all over but males like this one instead have an orange abdomen.

Part is a different specimen, but one showing the fly from the side here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53926970581/

Part two is the same fly as in pt. 1, but straight from the top here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53938170908/

The flower it has landed on is known as the great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) and is a virtual magnet for bugs.

I've put together an album with all my shots of bugs on this flower here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/albums/72157705562389611/

Photo is available in Full HD resolution.

Hill „Chlumska hora“, Czech Republic

I was sure I had found this before, and that it would be all identified on our website, but I can't seem to find any trace at all.

Class: Insecta.

Order: Diptera.

Suborder: Brachycera.

Family: Muscidae.

Subfamily: Mydaeinae.

Lateral. Scale bar 5 mm.

Holotype 3686:1

Whitsunday White side spot fly Lispe binotata Mydaeinae Muscidae Diptera Mandalay rainforest Airlie Beach 5mm long body

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3693:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3672:1

Holarctic genus Mydaea with about 20 Nearctic sp. Evidently either flavicornis Coquillet or impedita Stein, separable by presence in former and absence in latter of black bristles on ventral lateral margins of scutellum (Snyder, 1949). Back porch PM, Milton, MA 6/3/20

Dorsal. Scale bar 5 mm.

Holotype 3686:1

The two Australian Helinomydaea species, H. fuscoflava and H. flavofusca, do not strictly belong to Helinomydaea as described by Vockeroth (1972) but are placed there principally on the similarities of the female terminalia. Thus current Muscidae subfamily and genera descriptions and keys do not apply to those species. Traditionally they are placed in Helina (Phaoniinae) on external characters.

The catalogue has this species also occuring in NSW and Victoria.

Type labels.

Lectotype 3693:1

Not sure what type of fly this is - looks like it could be in the Mydaeinae subfamily.

Type labels.

Holotype 3672:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 529:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 529:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3712:1

5mm long body

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3693:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3673:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3672:1

5mm long body

Whitsunday White side spot fly Lispe sp. aff. Lispe binotata Mydaeinae Muscidae Diptera Mandalay rainforest Airlie Beach 5mm long body

I pushed her out with a toothpick and dented her left eye. Milton, MA 6/26/17

Genus ID tentative, based on overall appearance. Kitchen after dark, Milton, MA 6/2/18

Class: Insecta.

Order: Diptera.

Suborder: Brachycera.

Family: Muscidae.

Subfamily: Mydaeinae.

Type labels.

Lectotype 3712:1

Type labels.

Holotype 3686:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3692:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3712:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3692:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3674:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3672:1

Dorsal. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3673:1

Type labels.

Holotype 529:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3674:1

Milton, MA 6/1/16

Widespread in North America and Europe. Back porch AM, Milton, MA 6/1/16

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3673:1

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Holotype 3672:1

Type labels.

Lectotype 3673:1

Whitsunday White side spot fly Diptera Mandalay rainforest Airlie Beach 5mm long body

Back porch PM, Milton, MA 6/3/20

Back porch PM, Milton, MA 6/3/20

Lateral. Scale bar 1 mm.

Lectotype 3647:1

Class: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Family: Muscidae

Subfamily: Mydaeinae

Genus: Graphomya