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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 20-10-2014 21:12
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Can anyone suggest a family for this fly? On the ceiling. Townsville, Queensland. The thing on the antenna is just a bit of detritus. Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [70.56Kb] Edited by Graeme Cocks on 21-10-2014 01:14 |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 20-10-2014 23:57
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 Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 9841 Joined: 22.10.10 |
Scatopsidae. Several genera have curved CuA2 and a supernumary crossvein between R4+5 and M: Scatopse (crossvein incomplete, not reaching R4+5), Holoplagia (complete), Colobostema (absent or incomplete), Cookella (complete), Ferneiella (incomplete). They should be separable by a combination of thorax length to width ratio and course of CuA2. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 21-10-2014 01:07
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks John, I'll dig it out and apply your advice. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 21-10-2014 01:47
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
John, under the microscope I can see a distinctive bend in CuA2, but no sign of a cross vein across to R5. |
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but don't see the image in the post.
