Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Lauxaniidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-05-2016 01:09
#1
Is this Chloropidae? Unusual wing venation. Sweeping over grass. Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 10-05-2016 23:15
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-05-2016 01:09
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Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-05-2016 01:10
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Posted by John Carr on 07-05-2016 01:16
#4
Not Chloropidae. Maybe Lauxaniidae, or parts of the wing remind me of Psilidae.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-05-2016 01:59
#5
Thanks John. Psilidae, that's a new family for me. The antenna certainly look right for that family.
Posted by Keith Bayless on 10-05-2016 22:48
#6
Lauxaniidae is correct. Psilids don't have very many setae on the scutum and have a broken C and incomplete Sc
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 10-05-2016 23:06
#7
Thanks Keith
Posted by empeejay on 11-05-2016 15:17
#8
It looks like the same genus as the one you had
here.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 11-05-2016 17:56
#9
You are right empeejay. Thanks.
Steganopsis melanagaster