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Fly from Hong Kong: metallic green body and banded wing
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Posted on 06-04-2009 15:46
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Photo not taken by me. Just curious about its family:

http://www.hkwild...?tid=43518
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Platystomatidae.
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Teglagyar u. 30.
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I agree, but which genus? Plagiostenopterina is close, but for the bulbous development of the frons. I have a specimen just like this here at the moment, from Thailand, and I think it is distinctive enough to not belong to Plagiostenopterina but for the moment, I cannot place it to genus.
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