Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heleomyzidae? Nooooo!
Posted by rvanderweele on 16-03-2010 20:50
#1
Hello fellow fly-lovers,
please, do not criticize the quality of my pictures. I am very much aware it is appaling. Nevertheless...
In a box of "Heleomyzidae" I found three weird looking flies collected in malaise traps in Yemen, some years ago. If you look at the costae of the wings....yes...you may think it is a heleomyzidae, but the fly itself does not look like a Heleomyzidae at all. Looking at it, also at the aristae, which are very poorly visible on the photo indeed, you may think it is rather a peculiar looking Ephydridae.
I am very curious for your opinions.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-03-2010 23:22
#2
Curtonotum
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-03-2010 23:26
#3
Looks like
simile, described from Yemen...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-03-2010 00:43
#4
BTW: If you can spare one of the three...?
Posted by rvanderweele on 17-03-2010 06:16
#5
Thanks a lot, Paul. The specimens are from the collection in Amsterdam, so all three will go back there.
I have heard about the Curtonotidae, but I have never seen them, so also not in collections. Very weird flies.
I am glad to have read that they seem to be pretty close related to ephydridae, so I was in the right direction.
Thanks again, Paul,