Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platystomatidae (3), Tanzania

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 27-09-2012 19:14
#1

September 20, 2012, Morogoro, Ngerengere river. On human faeces. Size 4mm.

Subject changed to Platystomatidae instead of Tephritidae.

Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-09-2012 10:31

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 27-09-2012 20:08
#2

Platystomatidae: possibly Rivellia or very close; no Hendel (1914) at hands right now.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 27-09-2012 20:30
#3

Many thanks Valery. Frey (1932) quotes only 2 spp. of Rivellia with reddish-yellow thorax, viz. major and unifascia, that fly seems to be different from both.

Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-09-2012 10:31