Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diopsidae
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 24-04-2009 07:37
#1
A 6mm long Diopsidae I found. Its eyes were raised on stalks.
Pictured in Tanzania.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-04-2009 07:49
#2
I'm affraid, nothing to add to family level.
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 25-04-2009 12:22
#3
Ok, Nikita.
Could you point me to any specialist?
Can anybody else provide any info?
Posted by Jan Willem on 05-05-2009 08:50
#4
I took the liberty to ask a specialist (Hans Feijen) to have a look at the pictures. He responded as follows:
The Diopsidae picures ( Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) are really nice. For an absolute identification I would need to see the wing from above, but just as well I'm 99% sure that it concerns a female Chaetodiopsis meigenii (Westwood) 1837. Some recent authors place Chaetodiopsis in synonymy with Diasemopsis, so then the name would be Diasemopsis meigenii. It is a very common African diopsid that can often be found on compost heaps with rotting fruit.
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 05-05-2009 21:38
#5
Thank you very much Jan. :)
The specialist sent me the mail as well and I have sent him the wings pictures as requested.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 05-05-2009 23:16
#6
Jan, I have a rich undeterminated Doipsidae material from Oriental region. Could you give my Hans Feijen contacts to ask him is he interested to work with?
Posted by Jan Willem on 06-05-2009 07:29
#7
Hi Nikita,
See private message.
Posted by cavex on 31-07-2010 11:30
#8
I would like to picture some living diopsids in the studio, does anyone have larvae or pupae of this genus?