Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Strange fly -> Lampromyia canariensis

Posted by gustavopt on 26-06-2012 15:09
#1
From Canary Islands. Any idea? I don't know the family

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Edited by gustavopt on 01-07-2012 12:57

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 26-06-2012 15:57
#2
Looks like Vermileonidae. Did you collect this one?

Posted by gustavopt on 26-06-2012 16:59
#3
Obrigado Jorge. The only species of Vermileonidae on my island is Lampromyia canariensis. Today I have taken two dead flies in a water tank.

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Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-06-2012 19:48
#4
Lampromyia

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-07-2012 02:41
#5
According to the Stuckenberg's article on Lampromyia: http://www.zfmk.d...BB48H7.PDF

in page 77 it appears this info: median vitta of mesonotum broad, dar, mat, not divided longitudinally by a pale midline stripe; costal cell conspicuously dark smoky brown. And also conspicuous greyish pruinose bands on abdomen...

so it should be L. canariensis. Also the antennae profile fits the one in the article with the specimen you sent to me kindly. Thanks.