Thread subject:
Diptera.info :: The most beautiful flies
Posted by
Gordon
on 18-09-2014 11:45
#1
OK all you dipterophiles can I please have suggestions of the 20 or so most attractive flies in the world - for a talk I am going to give here in my Chinese University - so only flies I can get images of please.
Posted by
Tony Irwin
on 18-09-2014 20:31
#2
For cuddliness it's hard to beat
Cephenemyia
. And for chic cuddly -
Cuterebra
.
Posted by
jorgemotalmeida
on 18-09-2014 20:59
#3
This is among of them: Nemestrinus caucasicus -
From Turkey!
Posted by
Piluca_Alvarez
on 18-09-2014 21:11
#4
Nasty habits
but such a pretty fly
:
Toxoneura muliebris
Posted by
John Carr
on 18-09-2014 21:25
#5
Orthonevra nitida
from eastern USA. Related to
Chrysogaster
, so it probably breeds in mud.
Posted by
jorgemotalmeida
on 18-09-2014 22:06
#6
Cyrtisiopsis melleus from AlmerÃa - SPAIN
but such a pretty fly 
: Toxoneura muliebris