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 Hi

* locality - Fontelo's garden - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10.13
* size - 10 mm
* habitat - public garden
* substrate - near on the ground, it was among Hedera sp. leaves.
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 Linnaemyia ? Smile
 
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No idea, but the top image made me laugh Grin
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 Smile it looks like a tree, Susan. Wink
 
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 The first photo shows very clearly the setulae, seta(e),[= bristle(s)] and maybe some spur(s) = spine(s)?
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No idea, but the top image made me laugh Grin

Yeah, that was an unorthodox view Grin
 
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 Certainly a female Linnaemyia but, after Theo's warning on this genus, I wouldn't like to say which species it was. Smile
 
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 maybe L. tesselans? Smile

Whatever it Linnaemyia is, this is a magnificent fly!
 
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 what is the function of those many bristles and spurs in legs? It looks a little like an ancient roman chariot with metallic spurs on wheels... to cut something. Shock
 
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 I'd guess it is sensory ... most bristles articulate in cups, which in turn contain a lot of nerves. But it's hard to understand exactly how the fly uses the data it gets from the bristles. Could be for sensing host movement or helping judge air-speed and direction in flight.
 
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 I'll stick to my own warning.
Tessellans, though, seems highly unlikely to me


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 so will it remain for now Linnaemyia sp. ?
 
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Zeegers wrote:
I'll stick to my own warning.
Tessellans, though, seems highly unlikely to me


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Theo, tell me which characters I must see to get ID species.
 
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 Impossible, too subtle. Sorry


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 ok. Thanks, Theo. Smile
 
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