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 Heleomyzidae? Nooooo!
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 16-03-2010 20:50
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Hello fellow fly-lovers, please, do not criticize the quality of my pictures. I am very much aware it is appaling. Nevertheless... In a box of "Heleomyzidae" I found three weird looking flies collected in malaise traps in Yemen, some years ago. If you look at the costae of the wings....yes...you may think it is a heleomyzidae, but the fly itself does not look like a Heleomyzidae at all. Looking at it, also at the aristae, which are very poorly visible on the photo indeed, you may think it is rather a peculiar looking Ephydridae. I am very curious for your opinions. rvanderweele attached the following image:  [108.74Kb] ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-03-2010 23:22
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Curtonotum
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-03-2010 23:26
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Looks like simile, described from Yemen...
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 17-03-2010 00:43
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
BTW: If you can spare one of the three...?
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 17-03-2010 06:16
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Thanks a lot, Paul. The specimens are from the collection in Amsterdam, so all three will go back there. I have heard about the Curtonotidae, but I have never seen them, so also not in collections. Very weird flies. I am glad to have read that they seem to be pretty close related to ephydridae, so I was in the right direction. Thanks again, Paul, ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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