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Small fly, UAE => Actocetor indicus
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Posted on 18-03-2017 12:00
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found on 2017-03-13, Al Marmoum Conservation Reserve, Emirate Dubai, UAE. Is it a Tephritidae (but I found this species directly on the sand only)? Regards, Ingo


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Actocetor indicus (Ephydridae)
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Thank you, Tony. Greetings, Ingo
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Is there any knowledge about the mating behavior of this species? I noticed eye touching and kissing and very emancipated females...Wink

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Well, this impressing behavior was described in Dikow, T. & W.N. Mathis (2002): A revision and phylogenetic study of Actocetor Becker
(Diptera: Ephydridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 104 (2):249–290.
and recently by
W. N. Mathis et al. (2017): Order Diptera, family Ephydridae - A conspectus on shore-flies from the United Arab Emirates. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 6: 636–761
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