Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 22-25mm Black robber fly (Hong Kong)

Posted by sunnet on 04-11-2015 16:57
#1

22-25mm Black robber fly from Hongkong
Please help identify it. Thanks a lot.

static.inaturalist.org/photos/1056902/original.jpg

Edited by sunnet on 06-11-2015 17:15

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 06-11-2015 01:11
#2

This one looks an awful lot like Philonicus albiceps but i would like to add a big CF : )

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 06-11-2015 10:36
#3

Dear Reinoud, click on the picture to enlarge and most likely you will change your opinion ;) I thought something similar myself, but when I saw the creature in detail...

Of course, I cannot improve the ID :D but I have to say that I liked a lot the 3 creatures from HongKong :) Thanks for posting, sunnet!

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 07-11-2015 01:08
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Piluca, you are totally right.......way too premature my reaction. I would love to see more pictures of the wingvenation for it is weird. But also the antennae, the proboscis point in a total different direction. Still searching.........

Posted by sunnet on 07-11-2015 06:06
#5

Thank you everyone.
The above picture is the best I have got in hand.

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 07-11-2015 18:21
#6

Just to add, the wingvenation is strange: The 2nd longitudinal vein seems to branche distally from the radial medial crossvein, which now connects the 1st radial cell and the discal cell. I can't find this in Hull but here is a picture of a creature with that same venation (alas no name is given):https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asilidae_6_by_kadavoor.jpg

(i found the picture searching for Philodicus) I know way too little about Oriental asilidae to comment. The venation is so remarkable that more has to be known and probably in more recent literature.