Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 22-25mm Black robber fly (Hong Kong)

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.