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Thanks Tony. That is interesting.

I note that the Insectoid.info website includes just two species of Stratiomyidae for Antigua - not that that means anything. See below!

The two it gives are Cyphomyia chalybea and Pachygaster wirthi among just a handful of Diptera, most of them mosquitoes! This is clearly neither of these two genera - the first certainly appear to be quite remarkable looking flies.

The Insectoid.info website is very odd! Before I left the UK I had tried to pull together information on some of the things we might be likely to see in Antigua. Initially the Inscectoid site seemed very helpful in generating checklists for various groups, However all was not as it seemed! The site listed a good number of moth species but when I started looking further into these they were ALMOST ALL African species. Lists for other groups were also very strange. I do not know how they derive their information./ lists but there seems no facility to report errors or anomalies. I know there has been some discussion on Dipterists Forum about the Insectoid site but feel it needs to come with a warning to others who might waste time over it.

Thank goodness for high quality sites such as this one and Dipterists Forum.

Best wishes and thanks again

Alan