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Black bristly fly from Malaysia
orionmystery	#1 Posted on 22-06-2010 18:47
Member Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 107 Joined: 03.07.09	Found this fly by a river ..Malaysia. About 5mm i think. click for bigger image.


Liekele Sijstermans	#2 Posted on 22-06-2010 19:05
Member Location: Geldermalsen Netherlands Posts: 305 Joined: 16.04.05	Tachinidae Blondeliini Male, most likely Uromedina caudata But there some other genera with species with a tail. I would need a specimen for 100% identifications. Liekele


ChrisR	#3 Posted on 22-06-2010 19:54
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Very nice I was given some neotropical tachinids with tails and had guessed that they were just Uramya but they turned out to be Trichodura, so the situation is always more complicated that it first seems Edited by ChrisR on 22-06-2010 19:57 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


javanerkelens	#4 Posted on 22-06-2010 21:14
Member Location: Netherlands Posts: 2962 Joined: 18.10.07	I see many nice flies pass here.....but this one i really like! What a beauty! Joke Edited by javanerkelens on 22-06-2010 23:05


Paul Beuk	#5 Posted on 22-06-2010 21:18
Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19338 Joined: 11.05.04	Looks like someone tried pulling most of the extremities but did not succeed in breaking the specimen but rather just streched the extremities. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


ChrisR	#6 Posted on 22-06-2010 21:50
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	This is a real Uramya (in the BMNH collection) I really love the neotropics! Edited by ChrisR on 22-06-2010 21:51 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.