Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bombyliidae, Zambia - cf Exhylanthrax abruptus (original post)

Posted by Will van Niekerk on 17-01-2012 00:30
#1
Another one; this one appreciably smaller than the previous "call it Bombyliid".

Place: Chisamba, Lusaka North, Zambia.

Habitat: Ornamental flowerbeds (within a wider area of dry scrub ).

Size - 7-9mm.

Date: 21-08-2011
Edited by Will van Niekerk on 06-12-2014 13:40

Posted by nielsyese on 17-01-2012 21:31
#2
It is Bombyliidae.:)

Posted by Will van Niekerk on 06-12-2014 13:39
#3
Via Hesse 1956 key - and the Nomenclator to sort out synonymy - this seems to be Exhyalanthrax abruptus.

And I knew I'd already put it here somewhere.