Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ant-like fly, which family?
Posted by Filex on 11-09-2008 22:32
#1
Second most striking finding on my holidays. I saw this fly running along small decaying branches in a Quercus robur forest edge and until I approached I thought it was an ant! Might it be a Sepsidae?
Thanks!
Miquel
Posted by phil withers on 12-09-2008 00:08
#2
This looks like
Myrmecomyia (Otitidae)
Posted by Keith Bayless on 12-09-2008 03:17
#3
is
Myrmecomyia/
Myrmecomya a valid genus? I think that
Cephalia is the correct name, and that Ulidiidae is the name of the family.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 12-09-2008 05:40
#4
Cephalia rufipes Mg. (Ulidiidae: Otitinae: Cephaliini)
Lucky you!
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 12-09-2008 05:43
Posted by phil withers on 12-09-2008 10:49
#5
Apologies for being so behind the times !