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Hi my friends

I'm sure you will love this fly. It is just simply a very fine example of class.
Yesterday I made a new discovery.
I was in Serra da Estrela, and after some exploration in certain places I decided to rest near a water fountain at about 1300 m altitud. I was wandering around and saw many tachinids in those flowers seen in the habitat photo (Daucus carota mainly) and returned to my car to put some flies into the vials I forgot. Then I saw something flying in an upwards and downwards way in a very elegant flight beating very fast the wings (really we could see a panning movement) and the colour was incredible: creamy and with orange stripe colours! Quickly I swept with my net to catch it! The problem was to find the new fly, with its only 3 mm - 4 mm lenght, amongst many of other flies inside the net! But when I saw that creamy-orange mythicomyiid... it erupted an unutterable feeling.
It was a fly I was searching since 2007 when I saw the first photos taken by Javig (Javier Gállego ) that can be seen here:
http://www.dipter...ad_id=7072

Incredibly the fly was called for some reason to my blue car.




Virtually there is no (ANY) information on the flowers that this fly feeds.. and about their hosts... so it is important to establish a plan trying to get this important information. Most likely the host will reveal to be a grasshopper..but Serra da Estrela is very rich in them. It could be another host unexpected. Not an easy task.

It seems that this Platypygus is very fond of the next flower I will show you. And finally..... Platypygus to feed your dipterological fervor. ;) And I will show the place where I did find the Platypygus.


Enjoy. If anyone - after the article submited - wants to have any photo in the original size to frame it, let me know. (use my email for it)

Medium size version:















More photos later.