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Posted by dror on 14-09-2017 21:09

Can anyone help to ID this at the species level?
Pictures from Jerusalem this afternoon.
Thanks,
-- Dror

Edited by dror on 15-09-2017 06:06

Posted by Zeegers on 15-09-2017 07:54

avery nice pictures. Difficult genus, though.
Recently, the Rhiini have been raised to family level, so the family is
Rhiniidae now. I expect this change to be generally accepted, given the paraphyly of the classic concept of Calliphoridae.

Theo

Posted by johnes81 on 15-09-2017 11:27

a Google search about John Deeming returns very little data. what is the name of the review? "Review of Rhiniidae of UAE"?

Posted by Zeegers on 15-09-2017 16:57

Order Diptera, family Calliphoridae. Pp. 724-731. In Harten, A. van (ed.), Arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 1, 754 pp. Dar Al Ummah Printing ... Abu Dhabi. [2008.01.20]

Don't google, but use diptera.org !

Posted by johnes81 on 15-09-2017 21:03

Thank You Sir Theo.

I didn't know about diptera.org. Super link, Theo. Thank You.

I agree about google. I hate google. I can never find anything. I really hate it when google changes a name without asking. I also hate it when I search for a genus with a feminine name and photos of Women show up instead of diptera. For example, Melinda. Lord have mercy! Google stinks!

edit: no I don't just type a genus name and press search. I enter the entire binomial nomenclature. I remember searching for something with a feminine name and not a single diptera appeared in the results. I had to surround the entry with quotations. You'd think that they could program the search software to recognize binomial nomenclature.

Edited by johnes81 on 15-09-2017 21:05