Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai22. ???
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-01-2006 12:32
#1
Widespread, but not common, on the stones near streams, 5mm.
Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 08-01-2009 10:18
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 23-11-2006 07:56
#2
I think, I found the answer. Another fly collected (looks like same genus, but another species).
I think it is Lauxaniidae, Homoneurinae, new species of Prosopomyia.
Tomorrow I'll go to search more.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-11-2006 08:47
#3
Several features on this fly (head profile; size, shape and angle of wings; mid tibial spurs) suggest that it is mimicking an auchenorrhynchan homopteran. Why would it do that, I wonder?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 23-11-2006 08:51
#4
Hehe, for some predatory insects it is no use to try to catch hoppers. These simply jump away too quickly. So if a predator thinks you will be long gone before you can be caught, well I guess that might be advantageous. :D
Posted by rvanderweele on 23-11-2006 09:18
#5
I am not familiar at all with the flies from the Far East. When I saw Nikita`s photo I thought immediately about Peplomyza, a Lauxanid genus. Peplomyza keep its wings very similarly.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 23-11-2006 13:13
#6
And this fly lives on large stones in forest streams (it is why not easy to collect). Being disturbed it goes aside like Cycadellidae.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-11-2006 21:52
#7
Paul Beuk wrote:
Hehe, for some predatory insects it is no use to try to catch hoppers. These simply jump away too quickly. So if a predator thinks you will be long gone before you can be caught, well I guess that might be advantageous. :D
Thanks, that makes sense! ;)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 23-11-2006 23:37
#8
Yeah, that grey matter here above sometimes does what it is supposed to do. :P
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-11-2006 16:04
#9
Today collected in good amount.
Wait for Prosopomyia thaii Shatalkin:D
Nikita
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-11-2006 14:16
#10
I've got news that Shatalkin ID fly as species of genus Cestrotus. As far as I understood it is difficult genus with flies from Afrotropical and Oriental region and species level ID takes some good time.
I found 1 image in i-net in:
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/insects/flies/lauxaniidae/index.htm
Nikita