Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai04. A monster.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 03-01-2006 16:16
#1
Pattaya, on the bush, one of a kind, slow moving, unwillingly fling, 5mm.
I'd rather keep silence instead of write something stupid.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-01-2006 16:32
#2
My first guess would be Platystomatidae, but there are several families of picture-winged flies that have a much higher diversity in the Oriental Region. I will see if I can dig up more. ;)
Posted by Kahis on 03-01-2006 18:45
#3
Platystomatidae is also my guess. This is a small family in Europe but huge in the tropics.
Posted by lynkos on 04-01-2006 17:49
#4
Nikita... what extraordinary creatures you're showing us these days :o. Looks like you're having a fun time! Sarah
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 04-01-2006 17:49
#5
Thank you, Paul and Kahis, I've never seen before this family.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 23-02-2006 15:05
#6
Reading about Platystomatidae I also find possible pretender for this fly.
Everything looks siutable for genus Euprosopia with about 100 species widely distributed in Australian and Oriental regions, but north till Japan and Russian Far East.
May I be right?
P.S. one new image added.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 09-01-2008 18:52
#7
I still suspect genus Pterogenia, but may be now somebody can confirm it?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-01-2008 18:57
#8
this is the beauty of the monster!
Really all of these seems Platystomatidae. I'm sure that Val will be very delight to see these and he can says us more or another member of this great diptera!
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 09-01-2008 19:31
#9
Thanks for nice pigs! This is a species of the huge Australo-Oriental genus
Euprosopia Macquart (Platystomatinae). The genus has been revised by David McAlpine for Australia and Papua, but no comprehensive keys exist to Oriental species. Guess neither me, nor Andy Whittington can ID to species w/ certainty.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-01-2008 09:02
#10
Thank you Valery.
What is the situation in genus Elassogaster?
Nikita
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 10-01-2008 10:03
#11
As lousy as w/ the other Oriental Platystomatidae. Needs a coprehensive revision.
Posted by Andrew Whittington on 27-10-2008 10:35
#12
I agree with the genus Valery, but I'm hesitant to even propose a species identification. I'd be willing to try it if I had specimens in front of me, but photos are another thing.
Elassogaster needs revision and, again, it can be hard to place species labels to photos in this genus.