Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Asilus (?) from Uganda

Posted by pat_der2003 on 09-08-2017 11:15
#1

Hello,

A Uganda's bird watcher and guide took this picture recently in Uganda ...

It reminds me some Asilus or at least Asilidae ...

Is it possible to Id this hairy one ?

Thanks in advance !! ;)

Edited by pat_der2003 on 09-08-2017 11:16

Posted by tristram on 09-08-2017 14:45
#2

Looks liks a hybrid between an Asilid and a monkey!
(only joking)

Posted by pat_der2003 on 09-08-2017 15:38
#3

:D:D You're totally right !! ;)

There's a species of monkey called "mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), also known simply as the guereza, the eastern black-and-white colobus, or the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus" that I saw in Uganda and Ethiopia !!

Quite the same ... A little bit bigger ! B)

:D

Posted by Tony Irwin on 09-08-2017 18:30
#4

Hyperechia nigrita, I think

Posted by pat_der2003 on 09-08-2017 18:58
#5

Hum, looks like that very much !! |t :)


Many thanks Tony !! ;)

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 09-08-2017 23:30
#6

Lovely creature B)