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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 22, 2007

He posed beautifully for a shot and more. Who is he or she? Look at the way it squats!

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Sep 23, 2007

that is one cool looking bug Dinu

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 23, 2007

He is weird looking, they could make a scifi movie with him.

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 23, 2007

And he seems to be kissing the leaf!

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Sep 23, 2007

Dinu,
It is clear from your image that your strange bug has only one pair of wings, which means it is a fly in the order Diptera.

I have done some searching and although I have found no matching images on the web, I have found an image in my book "The Insects of Australia" by the CSIRO, an image of a Crane Fly in the family Tipulidae, which has a head and antennae looking very similar to your beast.

If it is related, it is in the genus "Paralimnophila", but this is a large genus, having some 58 species in Australia and many more in Asia. It could also be in a losely related genus in the sub-family Limoniini, Tribe Limnophilini,

Kennedy

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 11, 2007

I found another of the same recently. Seems to be thriving here. Any luck with more research Kennedy?

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Lily_love Central, AL(Zone 7b) Oct 11, 2007

Could it be a nymph of this scorpion fly?

http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/scorflyfem.html

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 12, 2007

Thanks lily. But the antennae are complete different to the scorpion fly.

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