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 Milichiidae? Any comments on proposed family?
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| jonrichfield |
Posted on 04-08-2015 20:55
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 Member Location: Somerset West South Africa Posts: 87 Joined: 04.09.14 |
Photographed by a friend in Grahamstown in her garden. ID suggestions gratefully considered. I don't even know the family. Apologies for the limited diagnostic materials Since I posted the foregoing Tony Irwin has proposed Milichiidae as you may see below, and it looks right to me (not that that means much!)  Thanks for attention, Jon jonrichfield attached the following image:  [154.6Kb] Edited by jonrichfield on 05-08-2015 07:23 Scientists often display a human failing: whenever they get hold of some new bit of truth, they decide it is the whole truth. GG Simpson |
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| jonrichfield |
Posted on 04-08-2015 20:57
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Member Location: Somerset West South Africa Posts: 87 Joined: 04.09.14 |
Here is another view of the same fly:
jonrichfield attached the following image:  [105.11Kb] Scientists often display a human failing: whenever they get hold of some new bit of truth, they decide it is the whole truth. GG Simpson |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 04-08-2015 21:52
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7284 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Can't say for sure, but it says Milichiidae to me.
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| jonrichfield |
Posted on 05-08-2015 07:13
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Member Location: Somerset West South Africa Posts: 87 Joined: 04.09.14 |
Good Grief Tony; that one took the wind out of my sails! My first reaction was "y'gotta be kidding!". So I checked out a lot of Milichiidae pictures and .... well... I see your point! As you can guess, my taxonomic acquaintance with the family is tenuous, to put it politely; I hardly have seen any of them except in the field on the prey of spiders or mantids, and those that I have seen are the cuddly housefly shape, not this rangy little thing. Anyway, I think you are right and on that assumption, thank you for broadening my insight! I shall alter my thread heading accordingly. Cheers, Jon Scientists often display a human failing: whenever they get hold of some new bit of truth, they decide it is the whole truth. GG Simpson |
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| jonrichfield |
Posted on 05-08-2015 07:26
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Member Location: Somerset West South Africa Posts: 87 Joined: 04.09.14 |
The Milichiidae that I am familiar with are the tiny black jobs on the prey of spiders etc, but I know that their biology is more varied than that. Does anyone know the biology of genera with this general appearance? Remarks welcome. Jon Scientists often display a human failing: whenever they get hold of some new bit of truth, they decide it is the whole truth. GG Simpson |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-08-2015 10:46
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Any chance this could be Madiza brittanica, a species I am not familiar with?
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 12-08-2015 13:02
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7284 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Unlikely if this was taken in S.Africa
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-08-2015 14:42
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
LoL, I saw Somerset, did not notice the next line. 
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