Posted by ianjacobs96 on 29-04-2013 00:47
#1
Small fly (5 mm) northern Thailand. Chlorpidae - thank you for ID.
Ian
Edited by ianjacobs96 on 05-05-2013 02:03
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 04-05-2013 20:30
#3
Chloropidae, Chloropinae: Merochlorops Howlett in Maxwell-Lefroy, 1909 sp. near M. lucens (de Meijere, 1908) or possibly lucens itself (described from Java, known westwards until the Arabian Emirates). Formosina Becker, 1911 and Coomanimyia Séguy, 1938 are junior snonyms of Merochlorops. Species in this genus are recorded to develop in plants of the families Zingiberaceae and Musaceae.