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Graeme Cocks
Can anyone suggest a subfamily or genera for this Asilidae? Netted. Townsville, Queensland.

Edited by Graeme Cocks on 28-11-2014 08:06
 
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John Carr
I think it is Laphriinae: R2+3 ending in R1, antenna with stylus inconspicuous or absent.
 
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Graeme Cocks
Thanks John
 
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Graeme Cocks
Hi John. I've found a key which says the feature you mention (R2+R3 swinging around to join R1) is the subfamily Laphystiinae, so I'll go with that. The key is by Fritz Geller-Grimm (1998), after Artigas and Papavero, 1988.
 
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Graeme Cocks
Ahh, further reading and it appears that the Laphystiinae have been incorporated into the Laphriinae. Pity it was a nice key.
 
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Eric Fisher
As John says, this is a Laphriinae--even a Laphria sp. (cf. bancrofti).
 
Graeme Cocks
Thanks Eric.
 
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Quaedfliegh
Maybe a silly remark but some of those Australian Laphria species look very much like our European Choerades species like this one. Laphria in Europe looks more like this: http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=63769
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What makes this one a Laphria?

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Eric Fisher
Mainly tradition I think. Australians do not recognize the genus Choerades among their fauna (even though this sp.--cf. bancrofti--and many others look like they belong to this genus rather than Laphria. Laphria and relatives (Laphriini) very much need a world-wide revision at the generic level.
 
Quaedfliegh
Oh noooooooo, not again! : ) The more i try to get acquained with the family the more taxonomic problems and loads of work i encounter. Nice! a never ending story....

Thank you Eric! (It wasn't such a silly question after all)
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