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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai. No idea

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-12-2007 03:19

Pattaya, on fresh zebu dung, 6mm

Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-12-2007 08:10

Muscidae

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-12-2007 09:07

Muscidae, but no result neither with Emden, nor Tumrasvin...
Pattaya, has to be common...

Posted by Xespok on 20-12-2007 09:49

Can it not be some kind of strange Sarcophagid? Or does this kind of small curve in M excude this family?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-12-2007 12:46

No, there is no row of meral bristles

header=[meral bristles] body=[The curved row of bristles on the meron (=hypopleuron). The meron is the triangular(ish) plate on the side of the thorax above and between the mid and hind coxae (the very basal segment of the legs). The presence of meral bristles distinguishes the Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Rhinophoridae and Tachinidae (which have them) from the Muscidae, Scathophagidae, Anthomyiidae and Faniidae (which don't). The easiest way to find the meral bristles is to find the posterior thoracic spiracle, then look a little below and in front of it.
Links:
http://www.nku.edu/~biosci/CoursesNDegree/ForensicFlyKey/families.htm First couplet.<br /><img src='http://www.diptera.info/images/meron.gif' style='vertical-align:middle;' />] delay=[0] fade=[on]

Edited by Paul Beuk on 20-12-2007 12:46

Posted by Kahis on 20-12-2007 12:56

Paul Beuk wrote:
No, there is no row of meral bristles

Based on the photo alone, I would say the fly may in fact have meral bristles, but they are very poorly visible!

Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-12-2007 13:12

I think you have a lifely imagination. ;)

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-12-2007 13:44

This fly has no maral bristles, of course, I checked it at once.
I looked several times through Mydaeini with no result.
After 2 calmless nights I wrote this morning a letter to Dr. Pont and got quick and simple answer - I forgot that in Emden's Fauna of India genus Brontaea put in Limnophorini
Brontaea flexa (Weid.) it is!
Thanks all for your help.

Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-12-2007 13:48