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 Brazilian fly with brown wings, not sure what family..
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| bonitin |
Posted on 20-10-2010 10:00
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Hi, I don't quite remember what size it was, probably quite small. 23rd February, rainforest Paraty-Brazil Thank you! Myriam 
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| bonitin |
Posted on 20-10-2010 10:02
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
a not very good picture of its backside..
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 20-10-2010 10:10
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Tachinidae, i]Trichopoda[/i]-ish
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-10-2010 10:33
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Yes, Tachinidae: Phasiinae: Trichopodini - you can see the leaf-like bristles on the hind tibiae. There are a lot of genera down there - Homogenia and Pennapoda to name but a few ... possibly also Trichopoda itself. I don't have one that is so black - mine from Peru and French Guiana all have orange/yellow patches on the abdomen. Edited by ChrisR on 20-10-2010 10:33 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| bonitin |
Posted on 20-10-2010 10:45
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks you very much Paul and Chris! That is already a big help! I suppose I cannot enter this on into the Gallery having no sure Genus ? Myriam |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-10-2010 11:08
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It might not add much to the gallery if it doesn't have a genus (and it looks typical for nearly all Trichopodini) but I leave that decision to Paul I couldn't really add much more than to say that there are quite a lot of genera in this tribe (very similar body shape; with and without leaf-like bristles; usually brown/orange body colour; and with a darkened costa; with or without petiolate median vein) and it is quite confusing as to what actually defines each genus because workers have named new genera/species but haven't created comparative keys to show how they relate to existing genera. But this is typical of all South American tachinids  I spoke to Monty Wood recently about a similar question regarding some in my collection (from Peru & French Guiana) that key to Homogenia in his key but that look identical to ones he identified here as Pennapoda. Basically it needs more work and we need to track down the types ... something Monty is doing. Then we will have a better idea what we are looking at and can work on keys to better split them
Edited by ChrisR on 20-10-2010 11:10 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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