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Key to Adult Males of Eastern Nearctic Blephariceridae: Couplet 3(2)

Inner margin of cercus greatly expanded near base, reaching to or beyond midline; apical margin with prominent, rounded lobe near outer margin; southern Appalachians...Bl. williamsae Alexander Inner margin of cercus convex or expanded broadly near apex, apical margin with prominent, triangular or pointed lobe near outer margin; mostly central or northern Appalachians...4
Inner margin of cercus expanded Inner margin of cercus convex...


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