Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Two insects very near a coleopter

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 27-06-2006 01:11
#1
Taken on 25th June in Montesinho - Bragan?a - PORTUGAL

We see a Meloidae coleopter and two other flies...

What are the flies? It seems a Bombyliidae (the smaller one) and the other??



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Posted by Paul Beuk on 27-06-2006 07:18
#2
The one closest is family Ceratopogonidae, the one further from the beetle is of the Bombyliidae.

Posted by Robert Nash on 28-06-2006 15:28
#3
Phthiria perhaps or are there other bombyliid genera this small? Robert

Posted by Paul Beuk on 28-06-2006 16:02
#4
In the Mediterranean there are.