Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Chironomid/Ceratopogonid?
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2012 23:31
#1
Can any one suggest a family? The 3 pictures are of different flies, but the same species.
Malaise trap, Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 20-05-2012 00:41
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2012 23:34
#2
pic 2
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2012 23:34
#3
pic 3
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2012 00:07
#4
seems to be Chironomidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 20-05-2012 00:11
#5
Thanks, I'll change the title.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 20-05-2012 00:30
#6
I think more likely to be Ceratopogonidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 20-05-2012 00:40
#7
Thanks Tony. I'll squeeze that into the title too.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2012 01:25
#8
I think Tony is right.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 20-05-2012 01:39
#9
Thanks to you both. With that agreement I'll go with Ceratopogonidae.
Posted by John Carr on 20-05-2012 02:01
#10
A predatory Ceratopogoninae. The large size and spines under the fifth tarsomeres suggest Sphaeromiini. I know nothing of the tribe in the Southern Hemisphere. I have never even heard of half the genera you have.
Posted by John Carr on 20-05-2012 02:06
#11
You may find enlightenment in
Debenham, M. L. 1974. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea predatory Ceratopogonidae (Diptera : Nematocera) of the Tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22(28) 1 - 92. (Paid version online at
http://www.publis...er=AJZS028; I have not read it.)
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 20-05-2012 03:02
#12
Thanks John. A predatory Ceratopogonid! That explains why the legs look asilid-like.