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jorgemotalmeida 09 December 2010 22:40:39
Rui Andrade 09 December 2010 21:29:42
Happy Birthday Joke! Smile
Andrzej 09 December 2010 20:13:13
great movie !!! thanks to Ashley Kirk-Spriggs who had the opportunity to find the forgotten creatures :-)
cyprinoid 09 December 2010 19:33:31
Mormotomyia hirsuta vid: http://www.abctv....er-tilbake
cyprinoid 09 December 2010 19:33:12
Cheers from Norway, Joke.
javanerkelens 09 December 2010 19:16:31
Feels great..the big 5 I can recommend it to everyone Grin Shock
jorgemotalmeida 09 December 2010 13:29:24
Congrats, Joke!
Paul Beuk 09 December 2010 09:48:45
Joke hits the big 5. Happy Birthday!
Andrzej 08 December 2010 19:34:19
flies in Amber ??? Pfft
jorgemotalmeida 08 December 2010 19:25:39
jorgemotalmeida 08 December 2010 17:42:57
Mormotomyia hirsuta Thyreophora cynophila rediscoveries of 2010. Which will be the next fly rediscovery?
Andre Burgers 08 December 2010 15:55:58
Mormotomyia hirsuta rediscovered!!!
Andrzej 07 December 2010 18:57:02
It should be named as a thysanopter fly Wink or thrips-like fly Wink
rvanderweele 07 December 2010 18:45:16
Truly, Jorge, when I saw the fly at first I thought it was a sunspider!
jorgemotalmeida 07 December 2010 11:32:10
I would never expect that a fly could be so similar as a solifugid! Incredible!
proctoss 07 December 2010 00:50:46
Lost diptera - Monster flies back from the dead! http://blog.insec...rg/?p=2183
rvanderweele 03 December 2010 19:45:39
I just ran a 5km with my wife. It is here now -3degr. C. The coming days temperatures will go up again.
jorgemotalmeida 03 December 2010 19:41:23
Nearly -1 ºC here in Viseu. Very atypical temperature for this region.
rvanderweele 03 December 2010 19:23:37
Daniel, I would like to add that there are many more species of other families with the characteristic, which you mention.
rvanderweele 03 December 2010 19:22:20
No, a family is not really characterized or defined by a single character. Most Sphaeroceridae have certainly the first segment of hind tarsi short and swollen, but it is one of many characteristics
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He last posted here in April, identifying some Chloropidae.

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