Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera or winged ant ??

Posted by Alvesgaspar on 02-10-2007 14:55
#1
This is a small insect less than 5 mm long who never stoped waving the wings. It looks like a winged ant, except for the head and eyes. I really don't know in which category I should put it ...

Thanks,

Joaquim Gaspar
Lisbon

Posted by ChrisR on 02-10-2007 15:00
#2
With 2 wings plus haltares and with antennae like that it has to be Diptera. Possibly Sepsidae?

Posted by Alvesgaspar on 02-10-2007 15:07
#3
Thank you, Chris ! Could it be a Australosepsis sp. ?

Joaquim Gaspar

Posted by ChrisR on 02-10-2007 15:27
#4
Well, I know next to nothing about Sepsidae so I am the wrong person to ask but the name sounds like it should be an Australasian genus, and I can't find that genus in a search of http://www.faunae... Smile