Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Lauxaniidae

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 14-02-2015 22:07
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Can anyone suggest a family for this fly? At light, Townsville, Queensland.

Edited by Graeme Cocks on 18-02-2015 06:55

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 14-02-2015 22:08
#2

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Posted by John Carr on 18-02-2015 02:08
#3

Entomologist Stephen Marshall wrote in one of his books, if it has a complete subcosta, no vibrissae, and doesn't look like anything else, it's probably Lauxaniidae.

(In Coleoptera, a generic looking beetle that doesn't have any distinctive characters is likely to be Tenebrionidae.)

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-02-2015 05:11
#4

Thanks John. Great information. Does that mean I can start posting beetles for ID too? :-)