Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly from Hong Kong: metallic green body and banded wing

Posted by chickenold on 06-04-2009 15:46
#1

Photo not taken by me. Just curious about its family:

http://www.hkwild...?tid=43518

Edited by chickenold on 06-04-2009 15:47

Posted by Xespok on 06-04-2009 15:54
#2

Platystomatidae.

Posted by Andrew Whittington on 10-04-2009 17:39
#3

I agree, but which genus? Plagiostenopterina is close, but for the bulbous development of the frons. I have a specimen just like this here at the moment, from Thailand, and I think it is distinctive enough to not belong to Plagiostenopterina but for the moment, I cannot place it to genus.