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Location: Near Chunga, Kafue National Park, Central Province, Zambia
Habitat: Riverine scrub
Date: 15.10.2011
Size: 7-9mm (length, excluding wings)

Recognising that the lack of specimens may cause difficulties, hoping someone can nevertheless confirm/suggest alternative genus.

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Second image:

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I asked a diopsid specialist to have a look at these pictures. He replied immediately with the name of the species: Diasemopsis meigenii (Westwood 1837). Also placed in it's own genus Chaetodiopsis.

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Awesome, thanks!

I'll just change the title and upload to the gallery!

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I like the view from the front because it shows in a photograph what I saw in an illustration. The Evolution of Insects by Grimaldi and Engel has on page 30 diagrams of the heads of Diopsis and Plagiocephalus. Labels show how two superficially similar stalk-eyes flies became stalk-eyed by modifying different structures. In Diopsidae the antennae and some orbital bristles are carried out with the eyes. It's a strange condition to evolve even twice independently, and it's evolved about eight times.

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That is awesome... Now googling images of convergently evolved stalk-eyed flies...

Thanks for the note, and also for liking my photo!

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Here's the page with the illustration: http://books.goog...p;lpg=PA30

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Thanks for the link - how did you know that my google search would be unsuccessful? Very interesting to read.