Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 22-25mm Black robber fly (Hong Kong)
Posted by sunnet on 04-11-2015 15:57
#1
22-25mm Black robber fly from Hongkong
Please help identify it. Thanks a lot.
Edited by sunnet on 06-11-2015 16:15
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 06-11-2015 00:11
#2
This one looks an awful lot like Philonicus albiceps but i would like to add a big CF : )
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 06-11-2015 09:36
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Dear Reinoud, click on the picture to enlarge and most likely you will change your opinion ;) I thought something similar myself, but when I saw the creature in detail...
Of course, I cannot improve the ID :D but I have to say that I liked a lot the 3 creatures from HongKong :) Thanks for posting,
sunnet!
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 07-11-2015 00:08
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Piluca, you are totally right.......way too premature my reaction. I would love to see more pictures of the wingvenation for it is weird. But also the antennae, the proboscis point in a total different direction. Still searching.........
Posted by sunnet on 07-11-2015 05:06
#5
Thank you everyone.
The above picture is the best I have got in hand.
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 07-11-2015 17:21
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Just to add, the wingvenation is strange: The 2nd longitudinal vein seems to branche distally from the radial medial crossvein, which now connects the 1st radial cell and the discal cell. I can't find this in Hull but here is a picture of a creature with that same venation (alas no name is given):https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asilidae_6_by_kadavoor.jpg
(i found the picture searching for Philodicus) I know way too little about Oriental asilidae to comment. The venation is so remarkable that more has to be known and probably in more recent literature.