Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 what is it family?
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| zhengxialin |
Posted on 07-07-2011 09:07
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 Member Location: Guangxi, China Posts: 239 Joined: 05.04.09 |
The species collected from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Could you tell me its name?
zhengxialin attached the following image:  [193.43Kb] Edited by zhengxialin on 07-07-2011 09:09 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 07-07-2011 09:38
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I'd say Oestroidea (maybe Tachinidae... but with wet specimens...) Are calypters big? If you have a loup check for the subscutellum. Also tell us about the M vein.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 07-07-2011 09:40 |
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| zhengxialin |
Posted on 07-07-2011 09:40
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Member Location: Guangxi, China Posts: 239 Joined: 05.04.09 |
Thanks for your opinion, it has redio-cubital crossvein. The calypters is not very big.
Edited by zhengxialin on 07-07-2011 09:55 |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 07-07-2011 20:45
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7346 Joined: 19.11.04 |
If you want to keep the flies in alcohol, I think you would be better to photograph them submerged in alcohol too. Most of the detail necessary to identify them is simply not visible when they are wet like this.
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-07-2011 20:55
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I agree - I just can't see enough to be able to say anything. All the important features are best seen when dry so to see them wet and bedraggled like this is meaningless really. 
Edited by ChrisR on 07-07-2011 20:58 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| zhengxialin |
Posted on 08-07-2011 01:53
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Member Location: Guangxi, China Posts: 239 Joined: 05.04.09 |
Thanks for your advices. |
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