Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly on fallen log - Western Ghats - family identification
Posted by muscicapa on 23-05-2018 04:40
#1
What family could this fly belong to?
Seen on fallen tree logs in the Western Ghats, Wynaad, India.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 23-05-2018 15:34
#3
Culcua, by the key in Rozkosny & Kozanek, 2007 (Insect Syst. Evol. 38: 35-50) runs to
C. argentea (with mid basitarsomere rather yellow than dark brown to black).
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 23-05-2018 15:34
Posted by John Carr on 23-05-2018 16:03
#4
There is a new species
C. lingafelteri Woodley, 2012 which "will key to C. argentea Rozkošný and Kozánek but differs from it by having darker antennae; longer, more conspicuous pilosity on the eye; the postocular orbit narrower; conspicuous, erect black setulae present on the scutum and scutellum; and wing cell cua1 mostly hyaline."