Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Chloropidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 01-02-2016 21:22
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Can anyone suggest a family for this fly? Light trap, Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 02-02-2016 19:49
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 01-02-2016 21:23
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Posted by Graeme Cocks on 01-02-2016 21:23
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Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-02-2016 14:39
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Check the frons to see if there is a large ocellar triangle. I think it might be Chloropidae.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 02-02-2016 19:23
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I have no idea if this is a large ocellar triangle, or just normal dimensions.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 02-02-2016 19:23
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Posted by Graeme Cocks on 02-02-2016 19:49
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Paul, I found a match in my Chloropidae folder. It's Rhodesiella magna.
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 26-11-2022 14:15
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Chloropidae, Rhodesiellinae: Rhodesiella magna (Becker, 1911) is correct. The two simultaneous descriptions of magnus and femoralis from [Papua] „New Guinea“ by Becker (described into the genus Prionoscelus Becker) are extremely similar and let not decide to which of both taxa the photographed specimen could belong. But the problem is irrelevant as Duda (1934, Tijdschr. Ent. 77: 55-161 on p. 51 and 60) after studying the types explicitely synonymized the junior name femoralis with magnus by adding two explained asterisks on p. 60. That fact was overlooked by Sabrosky and later authors with the result that for R. magna further collection records from Cairns, Queensland and the isle of Samar, Philippines [published by Frey 1923, Notul. ent. 3: 99-100] exist. In the Oriental Catalogue (Sabrosky 1977) also the Solomon Islands are for the first time listed for R. magna. Helpful, now to have photographs of this rarely recorded species.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 26-11-2022 15:52