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 Strange fly #2 from CAR (Africa)
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-04-2014 17:54
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Another African fly from Yves Braet - note the enlarged scutellum, like in Celyphidae
ChrisR attached the following image:  [176.51Kb] Edited by ChrisR on 05-04-2014 17:56 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| alepercol |
Posted on 05-04-2014 23:06
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 Member Location: Brazil Posts: 68 Joined: 30.07.09 |
In my opinion a kind of Chloropidae, probably Oscinellinae. Looks like some Rhodesiella aff. I have seen in Neotropical R., although I have never seen a scutellum like that. The wing with M1 bent anteriorly at crossvein dm-cu, cell bm narrow and punctate scutellum and notum are similar. "Não por acaso são os insetos tão apaixonantes" Subjects: Taxonomy, Systematics, Biodiversity. Area: Neotropical Region, Caatinga. Families: Ctenostylidae, Cypselosomatidae, Helosciomyzidae, Micropezidae, Muscidae, Neriidae, Pseudopomyzidae, Syringogastridae, Somatiidae. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-04-2014 07:07
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Thanks - that's interesting because Yves had concluded that it was close to Chloropidae but wasn't sure whether he was correct.
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 06-04-2014 08:21
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But the wing venation is absolutely chloropidous... or chloropidic...  Val |
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| Terry Wheeler |
Posted on 03-05-2014 21:23
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It is indeed a chloropid. Genus Nomba (African and Oriental) is characterized by this enlarged scutellum. Otherwise it is very similar to Rhodesiella and may just represent a group of R. species with a larger than usual scutellum.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-05-2014 08:44
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Many thanks Terry, that's very interesting - I will pass it on to the collector if he hasn't read this thread already
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