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Olga Correia
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This is a very disturbed specimen, can anyone help me with at least the family?
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Olga Correia wrote:
This is a very disturbed specimen, can anyone help me with at least the family?

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Olga Correia wrote:
This is a very disturbed specimen, can anyone help me with at least the family?

This was collected in a saltmarsh area, Aveiro Portugal
 
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Not Diptera. Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha.
 
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Many thanks, yes now I see i second pair of wings....Smile
 
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Olga Correia wrote:
Many thanks, yes now I see i second pair of wings....:)


Also, no Diptera has those wing veins. Phoridae is most similar. Nothing else is close.
 
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Thanks yes now I see it clearly, after hours looking at flies I was not expecting this one in my samples :-)
 
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Typical aphid wing venation.
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