Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Newly Molted Dacinae? (Malaysia)
Posted by orionmystery on 08-04-2011 03:31
#1
Hi, i found this newly molted fly in a forest reserve park in Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia) last Sunday. Body length about 6mm.
Side profile. click for 1024pixel image
Edited by orionmystery on 08-04-2011 11:21
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 08-04-2011 05:53
#2
Judging from this long antenna with bare arista and no frontal setae, could be a Platystomatidae or a Dacinae (
Bactrocera, Dacus, etc.) of the Tephritidae. The pale creamy patch on the pleura shows that the second option is more probable.
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 08-04-2011 05:57
Posted by orionmystery on 08-04-2011 06:05
#3
Thanks Valery. I have a closeup of the head too.
click for 1024 pixel image
Edited by orionmystery on 08-04-2011 06:12
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 09-04-2011 07:06
#4
This second photo clearly shows additional characters: 1) very large proboscis; 2) no scapular setae; 3) antenna short as for dacine species; 4) postpronotal lobe (humerus) rounded; 5) both frontal and orbital setae wanted. I do not know such a Dacini.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 09-04-2011 07:09
#5
On the other hand, all these characters are present in a similarly colored, yellow-white and brown wasp-like oriental genus
Xenaspis Osten Sacken of the
Platystomatidae.
And this is exactly what we have on the photos!!!
