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Australian Chironomid/Ceratopogonid?
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 Can any one suggest a family? The 3 pictures are of different flies, but the same species.
Malaise trap, Townsville, Queensland.
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 seems to be Chironomidae
 
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 Thanks, I'll change the title.
 
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 I think more likely to be Ceratopogonidae
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 Thanks Tony. I'll squeeze that into the title too.
 
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 I think Tony is right.
 
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 Thanks to you both. With that agreement I'll go with Ceratopogonidae.
 
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 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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 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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 Thanks John. A predatory Ceratopogonid! That explains why the legs look asilid-like.
 
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