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big, slender fly from Amazon, any idea?
mwkozlowski
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Posted on 24-05-2007 11:37
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the fly did look like any I know; it set on a leaf and was engaged in a kind of duel with an ant; some obove onr centimeter long. Family, genera?
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Member of the Micropezidae / Neriidae family complex.
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I go along with Paul here ... tending more toward the Micropezidae. It's a magnificent specimen.
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