Africa Wild

Regarding this one: I did manage to find wing patterns for Bombyliidae. Let me know what you think?



Bombyliidae. Maybe Petrorossia sp.





# 40 Wing pattern = Petrorossia sp.

http://ecology.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ ... s_2008.pdf

(The key also has the indented eye feature...)

does match

I'm going to post Paryphodes sp. now, but I can find VERY little info., as was indicated by Diptera.info website. Feel free to add anything you wish.

Re: Petrorossia
Trying to write it up, but can find virtually NOTHING...SOS, please.

Don't find anything either just post it

BluTuna wrote:Hi All

Any ideas?

Taken in Johannesburg.

Stratiomyidae. Odontomyia sp.

http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?photo_id=9042
from South Africa, Eastern Cape
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _2108s.jpg
http://www.cebe.be/diptera
Oplodontha viridula http://www.cebe.be/technics/htm/invent. ... =p&id=2985

Odontomyia larvae generally live in the littoral zone of bodies of fresh water (Rozkošný 1998). Odontomyia has 13 generic synonymies, the most of any soldier fly genus. It is the most speciose genus in the family. Odontomyia is cosmopolitan, with at least 25 species native to each zoogeographic region. It is most diverse in Australia (Woodley 2001).

Characteristics
Odontomyia is distinguished from other Nearctic Stratiomyini by the spined scutellum, the antenna with six flagellomeres with the last two flagellomeres forming a stylus, crossvein r-m present and M3 and sometimes M1 indistinct, reduced to a fold, or absent.

http://tolweb.org/Odontomyia/108822

Looks close enough to me

BluTuna, that fly is a gorgeous Thanks for the IDs on a couple of my jumping spiders, will amend the posts.

Family Tephritidae

I got an ID on Diptera.info for this, but can't find any further info. Anybody have better luck?


Kruger NP

"Isoconia sp. cf ghenti. Unfortunately, the most important characters as femora coloration and coloration of the anal lobe, are unclear."

It seems there is a Metasphenisca ghenti, so perhaps is a synonym of Isoconia?
Distribution range: Zimbabwe, South Africa

I know I can't post it down to species level due to the two issues he pointed out, just as "possibly ghenti".
Anyone find any info. on either Genus ?

Nice one. Pretty argents (Argents are shining, silvery spots that appear in oblique light on the dark areas of the wing)

Yes, it's a syn.:

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/S ... lue=668835

Metasphenisca was originally described under Isoconia (Munro), but was later transferred to Metasphenisca (Hendel) by Hancock (1990), who synonymized the two genera, both of which are considered to belong to the tribe Tephrellini (=Aciurini)

Can not find info

Okay, will go with Metasphenisca. Thanks Toko