Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly from Hong Kong: Stratiomyidae? (Chloropidae: Neoloxotaenia sp)
Posted by chickenold on 27-10-2012 08:36
#1
Found near a stream next to a paddy field in this Sep. Body length about 2.5mm.
Is it a soldier fly? Can its genus be identified? Thanks!
Edited by chickenold on 01-11-2012 16:57
Posted by chickenold on 27-10-2012 08:37
#2
Dorsal view:
Posted by chickenold on 27-10-2012 08:38
#3
Front view of the head:
Posted by ChrisR on 27-10-2012 09:13
#4
No - the wing venation is not good for Stratiomyidae. Nice fly though - I'm sure someone will put a name to it :)
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 27-10-2012 10:35
#5
Chloropidae.... :-))
Posted by Paul Beuk on 27-10-2012 19:15
#6
Indeed
Posted by Sara21392 on 28-10-2012 10:22
#7
Wow, I haven't seen such a Chloropodae so far!!! :D:D:D
If it is, then I think that's Chloropinae! Great species really! :D
Very similar to this one:
http://www.dipter...to_id=2758
Edited by Sara21392 on 28-10-2012 10:30
Posted by Terry Wheeler on 30-10-2012 22:07
#8
Looks like
Neoloxotaenia (Chloropidae: Chloropinae). A small genus and mostly restricted to the Oriental region.
Posted by chickenold on 04-11-2012 03:03
#9
Thanks all!
After checking literature I'd say this would be
N. gracilis.
A reference: Liu and Yang (2012)
Togeciphus Nishijima and
Neoloxotaenia Sabrosky (Diptera: Chloropidae) from China. Zootaxa 3298: 17-29.
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 30-05-2013 12:29
#10
Neoloxotaenia gracilis (de Meijere, 1918), Chloropidae. Good descriptions were published by Becker (1911): Ann. Mus. nat. hung. 9: 83-84, Andersson (1977): Ent. scand. Suppl. 8: 168-169, and Kanmiya (1983): Mem. ent. Soc. Wash. 11: 236-238. In the collection of M. von Tschirnhaus there is an Indian specimen reared from shoots of Hedychium gardnerianum, where larvae pupate gregariously. Widely distributed from Japan (Palaearctic) and Hawaii through the whole Oriental Region.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 30-05-2013 12:32