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Help with prey, please!
Nikita Vikhrev
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Lispe binotata eating some insect (part of insect - eyes).
My usual question - who is the prey?
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It appears to be a head of what could very well be a dolichopodid like Sciapus.
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And the very long bristles out of the head is long arista?
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Maybe you should tell where and when this was taken Pfft
 
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Should be the arista.
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Taken in India, Goa, 26 Jan.
Thank you, I've got message from Igor Grichanov with confirmation of Paul's ID -
Chrysosoma/Plagiozopelma group of Sciapodinae

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