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 22-25mm Black robber fly (Hong Kong)
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| sunnet |
Posted on 04-11-2015 15:57
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Member Location: Hong kong Posts: 100 Joined: 20.10.15 |
22-25mm Black robber fly from Hongkong Please help identify it. Thanks a lot. 
Edited by sunnet on 06-11-2015 16:15 |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 06-11-2015 00:11
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 Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2225 Joined: 18.05.10 |
This one looks an awful lot like Philonicus albiceps but i would like to add a big CF : )
Greetings, Reinoud Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 06-11-2015 09:36
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 Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Dear Reinoud, click on the picture to enlarge and most likely you will change your opinion  I thought something similar myself, but when I saw the creature in detail...Of course, I cannot improve the ID  but I have to say that I liked a lot the 3 creatures from HongKong  Thanks for posting, sunnet! |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 07-11-2015 00:08
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Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2225 Joined: 18.05.10 |
Piluca, you are totally right.......way too premature my reaction. I would love to see more pictures of the wingvenation for it is weird. But also the antennae, the proboscis point in a total different direction. Still searching.........
Greetings, Reinoud Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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| sunnet |
Posted on 07-11-2015 05:06
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Member Location: Hong kong Posts: 100 Joined: 20.10.15 |
Thank you everyone. The above picture is the best I have got in hand. |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 07-11-2015 17:21
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Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2225 Joined: 18.05.10 |
Just to add, the wingvenation is strange: The 2nd longitudinal vein seems to branche distally from the radial medial crossvein, which now connects the 1st radial cell and the discal cell. I can't find this in Hull but here is a picture of a creature with that same venation (alas no name is given):https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asilidae_6_by_kadavoor.jpg (i found the picture searching for Philodicus) I know way too little about Oriental asilidae to comment. The venation is so remarkable that more has to be known and probably in more recent literature. Greetings, Reinoud Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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