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 the fly with "white" eyes.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:07
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Hi to all This fly amazed me! Well I got these flies through a friend of mine who investigates the genetical relationships among Diptera, specially Drosophilidae. For those who don't know this fly is a Zaprionus indianus. The most striking feature is conspicuous and unmistakable: the presence of two long stripes that goes along the scutum and scutellum extending to the first segment of antenna. The orbital plates are a little silvery. And the fore femur bears a row of nodes with a small spur together with a long spinulose seta. (not visible in photos, though) Z. indianus is native to Africa, Middle East and southern Eurasia (Chassagnard & Kraaijeveld 1991; Bächli 1999-2005). Also this fly is now present in Spain. It can be found in Italy and Baleary Isles as well . These flies (Zaprionus in general) are tiny flies and they never reached over 4 mm lenght. I could manage to take some good photos to Zaprionus indianus' larva. You can really see the cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton clearly in profile and in other views. This is a good feature to identify the species with posterior spiracle analysis. I will show another Zaprionus that is Zaprionus sepsoides (soon). And I have 2 specimens of Zaprionus davidii kept in ethanol 70%. The species were separated due the differences of appendages that eggs have. The species were separated in an early stage. You can see here other photos in my new blog: http://superegnum...press.com/ And now just for fun: Well, a friend of mine saw the photo of this fly, and decided to make a surprise to me. So he sketched in two different ways this fly.  One with the white eyes and the other..lol  Just take a look...
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:07
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:08
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:08
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and the larva...
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:10
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
and now.. just for fun made by a friend of mine.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:10
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
and other... 
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 13:13
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I will put more photos later (with a detail of cephaloryngeal skeleton). |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 13-02-2009 21:02
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14321 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Jorge! Phantastic fly ! Looks a little bit like a brown version of Philygria picta (Ephydridae).http://insektenfo...#post88179 http://insektenfo...eadid=4926 Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 21:22
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
your fly (in first link) seems Nostima picta! what a resemblance!!!!  YES, Zaprionus are always impressive! Also check it out the Z. sepsoides 
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 13-02-2009 21:52 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-02-2009 23:12
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Juergen Peters wrote: Hello, Jorge! Phantastic fly ! Looks a little bit like a brown version of Philygria picta (Ephydridae).http://insektenfo...#post88179 http://insektenfo...eadid=4926 http://www.faunae...?id=137536 It is the same : Nostima picta = Phyligria picta... it seems that Phyligria was the original name given by Fállen... I've just realized this when I talked with Tony Irwin. Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 13-02-2009 23:13 |
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