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Platystomatidae?
Jorge
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Posted on 27-03-2025 11:15
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Hi all! I've followed the Key to European Families (Oosterbroek 2006) to identify this fly collected in Catalonia (June 2010), but I keep coming up against a dead end. The truth is, the species seems familiar, but I can't find it.
Can anyone help me?
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Ulidiidae. Note the small point in the corner of cell cup.
 
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Thanks John. However, I don't see any preapical dorsal bristles on any of the tibiae.
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Otites sp. cf. maculipennis (Ulidiidae Otitini).
Try to dry it a little to develop the microtrichose silver pattern of thorax and abdomen, just for 10 minutes after 96 EtOH: it matters, but invisible in alcohol
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Thanks Val!
Indeed, the the microtrichose silver pattern has appeared.
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Yes it is!
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