Thread subject: Diptera.info :: <4 mm, patterned wings, yellow scutellum, what family?
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 16:27
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About 3.6 mm including the wings, in the forest, Montsinéry, French Guiana. 27 May 2011. What family?
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 16:28
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Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 16:29
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Posted by Tony Irwin on 19-06-2011 16:40
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Periscelidae, perhaps? - some of the Neotropical species are known to have brown-marked wings
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-06-2011 18:11
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I'd say the same
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 19:20
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Thanks, you guys are great. I'm not great with a key, but using the key to Neotropical Periscelididae in Brown (2010), this would be subfamily Periscelidinae, since it has ocellar setae, and since it has one fronto-orbital bristle instead of two.