Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Hybotidae?--> Ragas unica (Brachystomatidae)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-05-2021 13:23
#5

The antennae are indeed not Ptiolina-like, but the only alternative I could think of in Rhagionidae was Spania (smaller than Ptiolina) but that gave the same problem.
In the picture it is not visible there is a small apical stylus on the tip of the arista and that excludes Rhagionidae. Then remains only Ragas unica (Brachystomatidae, formerly Empididae). The shorter fork in R4+5 miht have set me on the right track but those two specimens I received today are much more easy to work with. ;)