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 Is this Chloropidae? Unusual wing venation. Sweeping over grass. Townsville, Queensland.
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 Not Chloropidae. Maybe Lauxaniidae, or parts of the wing remind me of Psilidae.
 
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 Thanks John. Psilidae, that's a new family for me. The antenna certainly look right for that family.
 
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 Lauxaniidae is correct. Psilids don't have very many setae on the scutum and have a broken C and incomplete Sc
 
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 Thanks Keith
 
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 It looks like the same genus as the one you had here.
 
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 You are right empeejay. Thanks.
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