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| Arung |
Posted on 30-04-2005 01:22
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Member Location: Washingtonn D.C. Posts: 1 Joined: 30.04.05 |
It is one of the rarest flies in the world. Try to guess who it is. 
Edited by Paul Beuk on 15-05-2009 15:36 |
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| Andrius |
Posted on 02-05-2005 15:54
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 315 Joined: 27.01.05 |
I'd say it's a diopsid  And that's where all my ideas end  Andrius |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 02-05-2005 19:07
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
No, it is not a diopsid. Diopsidae have eyes on stalks that are narrowed between the median part of the head and the compound eyes. It more resembles the genus Achias from the Australian region (Platystomatidae) but I know of records of something similar from Central America. There is a south American family with broad heads (Eurychoromyidae) but I think it t is only known from four specimens of a single species and that species has not such a broad head. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Andrew Whittington |
Posted on 13-05-2009 16:33
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 Member Location: Snowdonia Posts: 110 Joined: 30.01.07 |
Try Plagiocephalus, Ulidiidae. Really need a view of the wings
-----o0o----- Andrew E. Whittington https://flyevidence.co.uk/ |
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| Maddin |
Posted on 15-05-2009 01:45
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 Member Location: Sacramento CA USA Posts: 194 Joined: 30.06.05 |
Hmmm Andy might be right, but there are some strange Tephretidae out there like Pelmatops from SE Asia: http://picasaweb....9504698210 Edited by ChrisR on 15-05-2009 15:25 Martin Hauser |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 15-05-2009 15:11
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Alessandra, U must give at least the zoogeographical recion this ugly beast is from. Antarctis? My guess was first either Richardia telescopica (Richardiidae) or Plagiocephalus sp. (Ulidiidae) if from the New World, or Pelmatops, if from the Old World. What seems to be strange, the wings look patternless at all, which is not characteristical for Plagiocephalus. And, there could be a possibility that the Plagiocephalus head was glued to a Musca domestica body. BUT KNOWING THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS TRYING TO GET A EUCHOROMYID, i'd suspect, that IT IS! IS IT THAT?????   AM I RIGHT?Thanx also for the possibility to see the pix of Johann and Jef Edited by Nosferatumyia on 15-05-2009 15:21 Val |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-05-2009 15:35
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Well, by looking at the link URL and doing a bit of Googling we arrive with a paper that has the original photos attached: "Redescription of the genus Diopsosoma Malloch (Diptera, Periscelididae)", which gives the name as "Diopsosoma primum Malloch, 1932"
Edited by ChrisR on 15-05-2009 15:40 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 15-05-2009 16:04
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Member Location: Posts: 3517 Joined: 28.12.07 |
Yes, Chris, I almost have reached the same result by finding out from her private pix, who is Arung, and looking for a periscelidid like this... But Paul broke the process by sending the link to Alessandra's and Wayne's paper you dug out!
Val |
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