Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lauxaniidae (Ecuador)
Posted by blackdogto on 15-01-2020 16:11
#1
Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Edited by blackdogto on 18-01-2020 17:19
Posted by blackdogto on 15-01-2020 16:12
#2
Photo 2
Posted by John Carr on 15-01-2020 21:13
#3
I think Ulidiidae.
Posted by blackdogto on 17-01-2020 15:28
#4
Thanks John! :)
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 17-01-2020 18:07
#5
Certainy Lauxaniidae.
Certainly no ulidiid
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 17-01-2020 18:08
Posted by blackdogto on 18-01-2020 17:18
#6
Thanks Val! :)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-01-2020 17:43
#7
Nosferatumyia wrote:
Certainy Lauxaniidae
With such conviction you must be right, Valery, but I have never seen a lauxaniid with such slenderish legs devoid of any large setae (apart from the apicals and preapicals).
Posted by Andrzej on 19-01-2020 21:38
#8
Hmm, I'm still not convinced about the family level of this specimen... Maybe we have to ask Steve Gaimari, what he thinks about it? :|
Edited by Andrzej on 19-01-2020 21:38
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 20-01-2020 01:09
#9
Just please note the wing venation. Take a look at the MCAD, and you'll see this is the only family with apically divergent veins R4+5 and M; neither Tephritoidea, nor Aulacigastridae show this character.
Also note apically widened scutellum and midtibia with dorsoapical seta!