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 Bombyliidae from Australia I
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| Cor Zonneveld |
Posted on 01-01-2009 10:56
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 Member Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Posts: 840 Joined: 14.10.06 |
I spent Christmas this year down under - at 35 C a rather unchristmaslike experience! Luckily, nature compsensated for this. Here's a Bombyliidae from my first day. I'm familiar with black in this family, not orange! (3 out of four Tabanids had also fully orange abdomens - what makes orange so special here?) The shape of hte head is also unexpected for me; the head normally does not extend that far behind the eyes (in my limited experience). So what can be said about this fly? Subfamily/tribe level perhaps? Or even genus?? Habitat: open place in woodland, near flood plain. Cor Zonneveld attached the following image:  [90.43Kb] Edited by Cor Zonneveld on 01-01-2009 11:29 Thanks for your attention Cor Zonneveld |
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| David Gibbs |
Posted on 01-01-2009 12:59
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 Member Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 833 Joined: 17.06.06 |
Looks very like Petrorossia, however the tribe Xeramoebini is represented in Australia by only two undescribed species of Petrorossia (Lambkin et.al. 2003) so it is presumably one of these. |
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