Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small fly, UAE => Actocetor indicus

Posted by Pristurus on 18-03-2017 12:00
#1
found on 2017-03-13, Al Marmoum Conservation Reserve, Emirate Dubai, UAE. Is it a Tephritidae (but I found this species directly on the sand only)? Regards, Ingo


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Edited by Pristurus on 18-03-2017 12:53

Posted by Tony Irwin on 18-03-2017 12:43
#2
Actocetor indicus (Ephydridae)

Posted by Pristurus on 18-03-2017 12:52
#3
Thank you, Tony. Greetings, Ingo

Posted by Pristurus on 24-03-2017 12:45
#4
Is there any knowledge about the mating behavior of this species? I noticed eye touching and kissing and very emancipated females...;)

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Posted by Pristurus on 15-08-2017 00:05
#5
Well, this impressing behavior was described in Dikow, T. & W.N. Mathis (2002): A revision and phylogenetic study of Actocetor Becker
(Diptera: Ephydridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 104 (2):249–290.
and recently by
W. N. Mathis et al. (2017): Order Diptera, family Ephydridae - A conspectus on shore-flies from the United Arab Emirates. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 6: 636–761