Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dolichopodidae from Panama

Posted by Stephen on 04-04-2011 10:13
#1

8 March 2011, Boquete, Chiriqui Province, Panama. Mountain forest. Measured 4.75 mm to apex of abdomen and 6.2 mm to wing apex.

Condylostylus, or is this another Sciapodinae?

Thanks for your help!

Posted by Paul Beuk on 04-04-2011 12:12
#2

It is...

Posted by John Carr on 04-04-2011 13:37
#3

This may be Amblypsilopus: Long, yellow legs with no bristles; wing unmarked, R5 bent strongly towards M, row of hairs on front edge of wing; no obvious mounds under vertical setae; only two strong hairs on scutellum. Typically antennae of Amblypsilopus have yellow and Condylostylus do not; there are exceptions. Among these the main diagnostic, as opposed to suggestive, character is vertical setae arising from setose mound in Condylostylus, not in any other genus.

I don't know if there is any key to species in Central America.

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Posted by Marc Pollet on 04-04-2011 21:47
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Dear Stephen,

John is right, this looks like an Amblypsilopus species. Please, ask Dan Bickel at the Sydney Museum if he has the key to Neotropical species ready yet.
Cheers,
Marc