Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Me too: French Guiana Asilid
Posted by Stephen on 20-01-2012 20:57
#1
I got only only two shots, both from the same angle, and I got the exposure wrong though I have tried to correct it here.
Such a robust, massive, thorax!
27 May 2011, Montsinéry, French Guiana. Low elevation, moist forest.
Posted by ChrisR on 20-01-2012 21:03
#2
Looks like a
Mallophora sp. but let's wait for Eric to confirm. They are bumblebee mimics, usually of
Eulaema spp. :)
Posted by christoophe on 20-01-2012 21:07
#3
With the two-tone hair on tibia 3, I play Mallophora tibialis.
But Eric's opinion is more safer;)
There is a second diptera on the picture.
Posted by christoophe on 20-01-2012 21:10
#4
ChrisR is too fast:@:D
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 20-01-2012 22:11
#5
Cute!!!!!:D Almost as big as the meta tarsus.
Edited by Quaedfliegh on 20-01-2012 22:12
Posted by Eric Fisher on 21-01-2012 02:32
#6
Well, definitely a Eulaema-mimic Mallophora sp. I don't think it is M. tibialis though, as the banding pattern on the abdomen isn't quite right, and the mystax is yellow, not black. We need to see the wings too: in M. tibialis, the basal third is deep black, the middle third clear, and the apical third thinly black.
Posted by Stephen on 21-01-2012 13:25
#7
Thanks so much for the help with this handsome fly!