Posted by John Carr on 09-12-2024 05:58
#10
I found the description of the species I mentioned and I don't think it's the fly in the picture.
I'm back to Minthoini. Not
Paradidyma any more. It has two widely spaced intra-alars while this fly has the hind two of a normal set of three. Probably one of the three genera of South American Minthoini, and not a species recorded from Chile. I don't have enough literature to say more.
In America Minthoini and the
Wagneria group have been confused. Both groups tend to have a row of strong parafacial bristles, a similar arrangement of scutellar bristles, and closed cell r5.