Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown fam. S.Afr.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 05-10-2006 19:24
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Raptorial front legs, certainly, but not an ephydrid.
It's Centrioncus, in Diopsidae, and is "aberrant" in that family by having a normal head, rather than widely spaced antennae and eye-stalks. The raptorial front legs and long scutellar tubercles are typical for the family. I understand that there are quite a few South African species of this genus.