Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Muscidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-02-2017 00:51
#1
Can anyone suggest a family for this fly? Light trap, Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 19-02-2017 01:56
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-02-2017 00:52
#2
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Posted by John Carr on 19-02-2017 00:56
#3
I think
Coenosia,
Pygophora, or something in that corner of the Muscidae.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 19-02-2017 00:59
#4
If you've got
Orchisisia costata in your Muscidae checlist, this is it !
Posted by John Carr on 19-02-2017 01:08
#5
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
If you've got Orchisisia costata in your Muscidae checlist, this is it !
It is recorded from Queensland in the catalog of Pacific Diptera.
Edit: As
Orchisia costata.
Edited by John Carr on 19-02-2017 01:09
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-02-2017 01:55
#6
Thanks Stephane and John. It is listed on ALA as Orchisia costata. I've added this sighting which is the only one. BOLD have only one fly which is from Pakistan. I'll be adding two when they are processed. I've added a second picture to this post which looks like a dark morph, but I suspect it hit the Hg vapour bulb and got cooked.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-02-2017 01:55
#7
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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 19-02-2017 11:29
#8
Orchisia costata of course, sorry, at 0:59 AM it is pardonnable :S
The second specimen seems to be a female, I agree it as become dark coloured, not a natural colour.