Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera (adult) - tropical Platystomatidae?, copula

Posted by gbohne on 30-11-2017 22:22
#1

Indonesia, W-Java, Serang, vic. Bulakan: Danau Rawa (Rawa lake) NP, 120-340m asl., 13.03.2011

this macro image is with ring-flash

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-12-2017 09:18
#2

Rivellia, Platystomatidae

Posted by gbohne on 01-12-2017 09:20
#3

Thank you very much for your kind help!
BTW: the copula in situ was up-side-down

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 02-12-2017 09:20
#4

Plagiostenopterina aenea F., quite a common scavenger signal fly through the Oriental Region, from Thailand to Philippines

Posted by gbohne on 02-12-2017 09:55
#5

I find very little info regarding this genus; however, the author of the species is WIEDEMANN, 1819 or FABRICIUS?

Thank you very much for correcting ID!
Guido