Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bali, Lophosia-like Tachinid

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 13-04-2014 14:37
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Hi Gerard! Nice to hear you.
1. Female. Yes, I had known it yet, because I have 1 female too: antenna is almost normal, but head shape and everything else too. "Everything else" legs like in Acalyptrata, meron with 1-2 setae only.
2. According to Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog -- Web Version it is:
112a. Family Rhinophoridae Originally placed in their own family, the Axiniidae, but since moved to Rhinophoridae, "axe flies" were proposed by Colless (1994a) to include 16 species in 4 genera in Australia and New Guinea. Nothing is known of the immatures, but based on adult female morphology, larvae may be parasitic, possibly on arthropods or molluscs. Refs.: Colless (1994a).
Different opinion: A small Australian family (axeflies), closely related to the exotic Rhinophoridae and thus to the Tachinidae.
Anyway, Bali is very new record.
Nikita