Thread subject: Diptera.info :: big, slender fly from Amazon, any idea?

Posted by mwkozlowski on 24-05-2007 11:37
#1
the fly did look like any I know; it set on a leaf and was engaged in a kind of duel with an ant; some obove onr centimeter long. Family, genera?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 24-05-2007 11:43
#2
Member of the Micropezidae / Neriidae family complex.

Posted by Andrew Whittington on 24-05-2007 20:40
#3
I go along with Paul here ... tending more toward the Micropezidae. It's a magnificent specimen.