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 Australian Chironomid/Ceratopogonid?
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 19-05-2012 22:31
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Can any one suggest a family? The 3 pictures are of different flies, but the same species. Malaise trap, Townsville, Queensland. Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [31.63Kb] Edited by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2012 23:41 |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 19-05-2012 22:34
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
pic 2 Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [31.53Kb] |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 19-05-2012 22:34
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
pic 3 Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [35.25Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 19-05-2012 23:07
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
seems to be Chironomidae |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 19-05-2012 23:11
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks, I'll change the title. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 19-05-2012 23:30
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7342 Joined: 19.11.04 |
I think more likely to be Ceratopogonidae
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 19-05-2012 23:40
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Tony. I'll squeeze that into the title too. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-05-2012 00:25
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I think Tony is right. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 20-05-2012 00:39
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks to you both. With that agreement I'll go with Ceratopogonidae. |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 20-05-2012 01:01
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 Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10624 Joined: 22.10.10 |
A predatory Ceratopogoninae. The large size and spines under the fifth tarsomeres suggest Sphaeromiini. I know nothing of the tribe in the Southern Hemisphere. I have never even heard of half the genera you have. |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 20-05-2012 01:06
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Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10624 Joined: 22.10.10 |
You may find enlightenment in Debenham, M. L. 1974. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea predatory Ceratopogonidae (Diptera : Nematocera) of the Tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22(28) 1 - 92. (Paid version online at http://www.publis...er=AJZS028; I have not read it.) |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 20-05-2012 02:02
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks John. A predatory Ceratopogonid! That explains why the legs look asilid-like. |
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