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 Mating Metopia (Malaysia)
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| orionmystery |
Posted on 02-05-2011 10:10
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Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09 |
Spotted this couple in a park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Body length approx 5mm or less. ID appreciated  click for bigger image. 
Edited by orionmystery on 05-05-2011 02:57 |
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| orionmystery |
Posted on 03-05-2011 12:11
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Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09 |
No one knows the ID?  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-05-2011 13:21
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Tachinidae to me and they have some interesting features - head shape etc. But I wouldn't be able to go further than that
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Liekele Sijstermans |
Posted on 05-05-2011 00:41
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Member Location: Geldermalsen Netherlands Posts: 305 Joined: 16.04.05 |
This may look like Tachinidae, but isn't. It is Metopia (Sarcophagidae). Very nice picture. Liekele |
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| Thomas Pape |
Posted on 05-05-2011 22:57
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Member Location: Natural History Museum of Denmark Posts: 110 Joined: 29.08.05 |
Liekele is correct, this is a pair of Metopia, and in my opinion it is M. argyrocephala. The oriental fauna of Metopia is relatively small, and of those species where the fronto-orbitals are expanded to meet in the midline in the male, I think Metopia argyrocephala fits best. This species is very widespread, and it would seem to fit also with a presence in the city of Kuala Lumpur. /Thomas
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| orionmystery |
Posted on 19-09-2011 07:55
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Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09 |
Thank you Thomas, Liekele, Chirs. |
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