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Australian Tephritidae
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Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 26-02-2015 20:50
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Can anyone suggest a family for these two flies? Collected at light. Pretty sure they are male and female. Townsville, Queensland. Graeme Cocks attached the following image: [82.58Kb] Edited by Graeme Cocks on 04-03-2015 19:29 |
Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 26-02-2015 20:50
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
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Paul Beuk |
Posted on 26-02-2015 20:54
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19217 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Anals cell extended ans the subcoste seems to be bent forward acutely: Tephritidae? Female abdome certainly points to a family in the Tephritoidea, too.
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Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 26-02-2015 21:02
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Paul |
Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 26-02-2015 21:18
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
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Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-02-2015 22:19
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3303 Joined: 17.10.05 |
I believe it's Hardyadrama excoecariae Lee, 1991 (Euphrantini, described from Singapore, present in Australia as far south as Mackay (as told in my sources)), also Andaman Islands and other coastal areas, rather wide-spread), develops in seeds of the mangrove Excoecaria agallocha (Euphorbiaceae). Reduced chaetotaxy of head and thorax, legs distinctly armed with spines (front femora with 1 row of ventral spines, mid and hind femora with 2 rows of ventral spines), etc. Description in Lee, 1991 (Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 39: 105-118), additional data in Permkam & Hancock, 1995 (Australian Trypetinae: Invertebr. Taxon. 9: on Hardyadrama pp. 1169-1176).
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:24 While others can't climb, using infinite pains, I, gravity turning to jest, Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes, Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best. |
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Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-02-2015 22:25
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3303 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Key to genera of Euphrantini (from Permkam & Hancock, 1995)
Dmitry Gavryushin attached the following image: [96.81Kb] Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:26 While others can't climb, using infinite pains, I, gravity turning to jest, Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes, Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best. |
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Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-02-2015 22:27
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3303 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Key to species of Hardyadrama (op.cit.)
Dmitry Gavryushin attached the following image: [61.72Kb] While others can't climb, using infinite pains, I, gravity turning to jest, Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes, Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best. |
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Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 26-02-2015 22:37
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Dmitry, wonderful. We live just a kilometre from the mangroves. |
Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-02-2015 22:56
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3303 Joined: 17.10.05 |
I might be very wrong Graeme (as it happened before), so let's wait for Valery and his verdict...
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:57 |
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