Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai14. Empidoidea?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-01-2006 14:28
#1
Pattaya, near cow dung, 3mm.
I never see Microphoridae, may be it is the case?
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Posted by Kahis on 11-01-2006 14:31
#2
Naah, it's some kind of hybotid.

Edit: kind of hybotid, not king of ... Smile
Edited by Kahis on 11-01-2006 16:37

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-01-2006 14:32
#3
Thank you Kahis.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-01-2006 15:18
#4
Well, they used to be Empididae, too, untill Chv?la decided to split the families. I think it may be Drapetis (Elaphropeza).

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-01-2006 15:26
#5
Thank you Paul. Tomorrow I'll try to see whom they hunt on cow dung.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-01-2007 19:11
#6
ID by Igor Shamshev as Crossopalpus hirsutipes.
(Studia Dipterologica, 12 (2005), Shamshev et al., 331-336)