Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Centrophlebomyia furcata
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 21-02-2008 17:11
#1
I was upset that I came Turkey too early.
But today's fly make life a little bit better :D :D
Centrophlebomyia furcata
Turkey, Antalia, Side, sand dunas, on dead dog, one of a kind so far...
Posted by crex on 21-02-2008 18:25
#2
Interesting bristles on scutellum. Are they for protection? B)
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 21-02-2008 18:34
#3
Wow! That's really something! Peronally I would prefer a
Thyreophora cynophila, which is much more colourful, but it is a bad taste to look gift-horse in the mouth...
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 21-02-2008 18:54
#4
A cool fly :)!
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 21-02-2008 19:55
#5
To illustrate how rare this fly is, look distribution table at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=64018 - one green spot at red ocean :D
Posted by Tony Irwin on 21-02-2008 22:22
#6
Many dipterists dream of finding this species just once in their career!
You should be feeling very pleased with yourself Nikita! B)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-02-2008 01:03
#7
wowow!!! there are guys with SO MUCH luck!!! one fabulous piophilid fly!
Posted by Tony Irwin on 22-02-2008 09:35
#8
When I first got married, my mother-in-law asked me what my favourite creature was - so I told her it was
Centrophlebomyia furcata. "Can you spell that?" she asked. I wrote it down for her and wondered why she was asking. A couple of months later, at Christmas, she presented me with a glass tankard on which was engraved a recognisable image of the fly! The engraver did say that he had never had such a difficult request before. The tankard still survives, thirty years on.:)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-02-2008 12:18
#9
wow. a very original gift to remember forever!
it seems in this case that the eternal question: "Why do I hate my mother-in-law so much?" is not true. :D
Posted by John Bratton on 22-02-2008 15:08
#10
It has been found in Britain, a long time ago. I mentioned it in the press release for the British insect Red Data Book in 1987, and this rare fly found on a dead donkey was the only aspect some of the newspapers mentioned, to my boss' annoyance as he didn't think it properly represented the case for insect conservation.
There is also a record from Isael more recently (1970s?).
John Bratton
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 22-02-2008 18:55
#11
Freidberg, A. 1981. Taxonomy, natural history and immature stages of the bone-skipper,
Centrophlebomyia furcata (Fabricius) (Diptera: Piophilidae, Thyreophorina). - Ent. scand.
12: 320-326.
Amnon told me the story onceuponatime:
"I was playing with my little daughter on the playground near my house. The winter before was very dry, and bedouins came with their sheep, cattle and camels to Tel Avive, using lawns for pasturing.
I sat and read a book while my dauter was playing in the sand, and noted a goat skull at my feet, and a strange fly on it, which quickly disappeared in the orbit hole. I took the skull home and put in the net cage at garage. In a short time I have got numerous "bone-skipping" maggots, which I used later for description."