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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 31, 2007

There seems to be a shortage of pics of these, nothing like it on the diptera.info site.

Any ideas anyone?

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 31, 2007

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Jul 31, 2007

How about Anomoia purmunda?

typo

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 31, 2007

Hey you got it claypa! Thanks! I was looking in the wrong family.

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?query=Anomoia%20purmunda&invocationType=imageTab

There are some on the diptera.info site with different coloured eyes, same wings etc, not sure why that is but others pics show the same eyes.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Jul 31, 2007

I think it's a photography thing - maybe different flashes or ambient lighting, especially for the eyes.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Jul 31, 2007

http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/flies%20p2.html


Quoting:
"The flies known as the Picture-wing flies come from three distinct families - the Tephritidae, Ulidiidae and the Otitiidae families."


That's the site that got me to look in a Family other than Ulidiidae.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 31, 2007

I was on that site a couple of days ago, looking for something else! I came across a US site which showed different families late last night, while searching for another picture-winged fly which doesn't really have much 'picture' on the wings but is in the Family Ulidiidae. It can be confusing!

Thanks again, the sun's shining so I must get more bugs snapped! More new ones every day, can't keep up!

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 31, 2007

claypa, back on the job, the site I found last night was this:

http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/albumframes/029frame.html

I re-read the quote about the three Families, but what I found was the Family Otitidae is now known as Ulidiidae according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture-winged_fly

I was checking on Seioptera vibrans, which on diptera.info site is included in Ulidiidae but in the other family on the US site. These sites probably haven't been updated, which adds to the confusion.

My Seioptera vibrans looks like the female on the diptera.info site, but I didn't think the picture-winged fly title quite right for this fly so was looking to see what I could find.

http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=55

Fun isn't it!

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 01, 2007

Usually... especially after the dust settles from the taxonomic adjustments!

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