Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bee fly from Hong Kong: Systropus sp.?

Posted by chickenold on 11-01-2009 15:16
#1

Photo taken by my friend.
About 25mm long, found on a remote island.
Would it be Systropus sp.?
www.fotoc.com/chickenold/d/7851-1/2008060809_247e.jpg

Edited by chickenold on 11-01-2009 15:17

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-01-2009 15:18
#2

WOW!!! Systropus sp. (Bombyliidae)
but it really remember in some way the Stylogaster!!

Fabulous!!! Fabulous!! WOWOW!

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 11-01-2009 15:20

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-01-2009 15:21
#3

this is one of the most beautiful fly I've seen along with the fabulous Toxophora fasciculata! :D

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 11-01-2009 15:31