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
#2

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Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-05-2016 01:10
#3

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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