Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dolichopodidae? with very very long antenae

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 23-08-2007 07:27
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Now Sybistroma (again).
Multiple male colour and morphological ornaments (male secondary sexual characters or MSSC) are commonly found on antennae, mouthparts, legs, wings and abdomen in many Dolichopodidae species in addition to large genital capsule (hypopygium). This decoration developed more in tropical species marks out long-legged flies from all other Diptera (Sivinski, 1997).

Sybistroma dufouri Macquart, 1838: Ann.Soc.ent.France 7: 427 ** Type locality: France: Saint-Sever. Palaearctic: Balearic Is., France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, ?Yugoslavia, Morocco, Algeria *

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Edited by Igor Grichanov on 23-08-2007 07:36