Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Little diptera, identification please

Posted by Roden on 13-08-2017 04:38
#1
Identification please. small Diptera of the Coastal range, Atacama Desert, Chile.


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Posted by Tony Irwin on 13-08-2017 08:59
#2
This fly has been infected with a fungus - Entomophthora sp. I'm not sure which family the fly is in. Possibly Lauxaniidae or Canaceidae.

Posted by Roden on 13-08-2017 15:26
#3
Thank you, Toni, I did not know that fungus.
Lauxaniidae, I think.