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 Fly from Hong Kong: Stratiomyidae? (Chloropidae: Neoloxotaenia sp)
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| chickenold |
Posted on 27-10-2012 08:36
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Found near a stream next to a paddy field in this Sep. Body length about 2.5mm. Is it a soldier fly? Can its genus be identified? Thanks! chickenold attached the following image:  [198.83Kb] Edited by chickenold on 01-11-2012 16:57 |
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| chickenold |
Posted on 27-10-2012 08:37
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Dorsal view:
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| chickenold |
Posted on 27-10-2012 08:38
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Front view of the head:
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 27-10-2012 09:13
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No - the wing venation is not good for Stratiomyidae. Nice fly though - I'm sure someone will put a name to it 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Gerard Pennards |
Posted on 27-10-2012 10:35
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Chloropidae.... :-))
Greetings, Gerard Pennards |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 27-10-2012 19:15
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Indeed
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| Sara21392 |
Posted on 28-10-2012 10:22
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Wow, I haven't seen such a Chloropodae so far!!!  If it is, then I think that's Chloropinae! Great species really! Very similar to this one: http://www.dipter...to_id=2758 Edited by Sara21392 on 28-10-2012 10:30 Sincerely yours Sara |
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| Terry Wheeler |
Posted on 30-10-2012 22:07
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Looks like Neoloxotaenia (Chloropidae: Chloropinae). A small genus and mostly restricted to the Oriental region.
Lyman Entomological Museum McGill University http://lymanmuseu...dpress.com |
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| chickenold |
Posted on 04-11-2012 03:03
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Thanks all! After checking literature I'd say this would be N. gracilis. A reference: Liu and Yang (2012) Togeciphus Nishijima and Neoloxotaenia Sabrosky (Diptera: Chloropidae) from China. Zootaxa 3298: 17-29. |
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| von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 30-05-2013 12:29
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Neoloxotaenia gracilis (de Meijere, 1918), Chloropidae. Good descriptions were published by Becker (1911): Ann. Mus. nat. hung. 9: 83-84, Andersson (1977): Ent. scand. Suppl. 8: 168-169, and Kanmiya (1983): Mem. ent. Soc. Wash. 11: 236-238. In the collection of M. von Tschirnhaus there is an Indian specimen reared from shoots of Hedychium gardnerianum, where larvae pupate gregariously. Widely distributed from Japan (Palaearctic) and Hawaii through the whole Oriental Region.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 30-05-2013 12:32 |
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