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daniel86
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Posted on 23-03-2011 22:42
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Please can someone say to me to that family belongs this specimen? It is of approximately 10 mm of length, acalyptrate, with frontal suture, without vibrisas oral with a costal break

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Sorry, Daniel, I can't help you. I am not familiar enough with the Neotropics....and "not familar enough" is the understatement of the day
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Note R5 and M converging at wing tip. That limits the number of families. Micropezidae is one family with those veins converging.
 
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Possibly Tanypezidae.
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