Thread subject: Diptera.info :: asilidae?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 18-03-2007 18:30
#1

not mine photo, taken by Meng Foo Choo in Singapore on 18th March 2007 (and permission to know the possible species).

Asilidae fly?

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Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-03-2007 18:39
#2

Undoubtedly. On of the Leptogastrinae. The European species have a similar built but pennate legs are quite unknown to me.

Posted by Eric Fisher on 20-03-2007 05:47
#3

A splendid shot of a beautiful robber fly (Leptogastrinae): Ophionomima solocifemur Enderlein. Torsten Dikow, the expert on this group, told me recently that he had seen this fly alive - also in Singapore. There is a very nice figure of this fly on pg. 307, in Hull's "Robber Flies of the World."

Eric

Posted by crex on 20-03-2007 08:28
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Good photo of an interesting fly. Ask Meng Foo Choo if we can use the photo in the gallery! B)