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Hi Nikita,

I would not be surprised if this would be also a Rainieria sp,

http://xespok.net...1000006986

but this family is quite homogenous as far as I know, and could easily form just one subfamily in a larger group containing Neriidae, Micropezidae, Megamerinidae and maybe a few others, which means that very similar flies could easily belong to different genera.

I helped the thaibug web owner to place hundreds of his images to families (mostly moths though), so many of the IDs on his page are maybe not 100% sure. He also did not have the time to correct all obvious misidentifications, since it is very time consuming for him, because his website is still entirely html based.

As for other oriental diptera sites, unfortunately there does not seem to be many around. I think my gallery is the largest by distance as far as the Japanese diptera are concerned with close to 2000 Diptera images. There are other people with large photo collections, possibly larger than mine, but these photos are not on the web. I know a few other web sites, but many of them are specialized for families. There is a very good one for Syrphidae and another very good one for Asilidae. And there is a Japanese Diptera forum, which is good, but obviously most of the post is in Japanese, and deals with Japanese species only.

Apart from Japanese web sites, all other oriental wildlife web sites venturing beyond vertebrates are really tough to find, especially if your are into less popular groups, like Diptera.

Xespok