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 ONE of the most amazing flies on the EARTH: Cephalodromia nitens Loew, 1846
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 12:13
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Dear friends I'm REALLY BAFFLED with this AMAZING and SPECTACULAR FLY!!!!!! I have found a new genus for Portugal. And soon I will make an article with Neal Evenhuis on this beauty! This is a Cephalodromia sp. that I saw yesterday in Serra da Estrela. This fly was almost the cause that I could broke my hand. Now it is better... but it was almost broken... the driving in montain was hard...  But for this fly it is worthy!!!! Seee why  I will add more photos later 
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 05-01-2010 20:43 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 27-07-2009 12:29
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7700 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Congratulations on finding your new strange fly - looks like an odd kind of bird! 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 12:49
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
ChrisR wrote: Congratulations on finding your new strange fly - looks like an odd kind of bird! Thanks, Chris!!! This is surely a beauty!  And, yes, it reminds to me the same! Now another photo... jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [190.26Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 12:59
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
FREAKING AMAZING!!!!
jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [185.31Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 13:04
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
ah.. I forgot to tell that this mythicomyiid measures 4 mm. A little bigger than the Empidideicus. |
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| javanerkelens |
Posted on 27-07-2009 14:04
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 Member Location: Netherlands Posts: 2962 Joined: 18.10.07 |
Indeed nice fly ! ...congratulations! Joke |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 17:22
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
thanks, Joke! I will add more photos yet! |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 27-07-2009 18:01
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
also see the header of DI... it is precisely the same genus. That fly of the header was taken by Javier Gállego (javig here). |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 28-07-2009 00:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I have news. This could be a C. cf. nitens but we must wait for more data. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 29-07-2009 00:35
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
first photo of the new series.... the other will come later with some details described and with some habitat photos.  I suggest you see it bigger here: http://www.flickr...5/sizes/o/ Enjoy! |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 29-07-2009 12:24
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
well I will show you the other NEW photos. But I will show the best one for the final Here the first photos:   and the copula (female at the right)  and for the last photo.... |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 29-07-2009 12:26
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this should be seen in BIG SIZE. HERE ---> http://www.flickr...2/sizes/o/ then press F11 for full screen. Better seen in big monitors.. (over 20"
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 05-01-2010 21:28 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 30-07-2009 21:14
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this is a photo near from the habitat of this Cephalodromia cf. nitens. Taken with the bridge camera. jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [191.03Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 30-07-2009 21:23
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this shows the place where I spotted the first Cephalodromia. Photo taken with the bridge camera. jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [189.06Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 30-07-2009 23:16
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Well, today, myself and Andrade went to the Serra da Estrela and did manage to see about 50 Cephalodromia or so... Also Andrade made some videos that he will show us here. Now, I would like to see Platypygus and Glabellula |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 30-07-2009 23:28
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
You're lucky, here in Hungrary there's only Apolysis szappanosi, and that is also so rare, that it was only recently discovered and named. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 30-07-2009 23:36
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Apolysis is a bombyliid. Not a mythico... but it is spectacular as well! The antenna of Apolysis has a subapical sulcus in the last segment! 
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 30-07-2009 23:37 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 02-08-2009 22:09
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this video was made by Andrade in the last Thursday... We saw over 100 Cephalodromia!  Here you can see a nice video on C. cf. nitens. Enjoy. YouTube Video and another one: YouTube Video with some nice sounds... YouTube Video and the last one: YouTube Video |
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| conopid |
Posted on 03-08-2009 08:10
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Just fantastic! Good work Jorge.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 03-08-2009 16:45
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
thanks, Nigel. Today I went to the same place... and found many Cephalodromia. This time almost I got one photo with Cephalodromia flying... I will show that photo in the last post. Now I will show some new photos I took today. jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [189.84Kb] |
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