Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Therevid Fly?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I found a pic of a fly on the BWARS site and I have one that looks similar, called a Therevid Fly,

http://www.bwars.com/Ectemnius_continuus.htm

This gets interesting, a search for Therevid Fly has brought some very good fly sites up! Actually there was only 4 links from 2 web sites, but they're all on the one site.

The british checklist has 14 species in 6 genera in the family Therevidae, common name Stileto Flies.

http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/html/family?id=15264100

A good list of links for flies here,

http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/html/resources.php

Somehow I got to here, a description of Stiletto Flies and their uses. The larvae look like a wire worm which I always thought were bad.

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cee/therevid/index.html

I followed the link Brachycera to Therevidae, good site here!

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Diptera&contgroup=Endopterygota

In which is listed 3 subfamilies (?), Phycinae, Agapophytinae, Therevinae.

That all came from a Rumanian Entomology site with links to other Orders.

http://entomology.ru/entomol_group/diptera/diptera.htm

The question is, does mine fit anywhere here?

http://tolweb.org/Therevidae/10463

Handsome little thing, I've seen it a few times, it's not huge, about the size of a blowfly but thinner.