A fly, belonging to the subfamily Lauxaniinae, lurks beneath a Photinia leaf. [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
EDIT: Likely genus Ceratolauxania
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A fly, belonging to the subfamily Lauxaniinae, lurks beneath a Photinia leaf. [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
EDIT: Likely genus Ceratolauxania
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights
Golden Lauxaniid Fly Minettia sp. Lauxaniinae Lauxaniidae Lauxanioidea Diptera Body is 5mm long Nose to wing tip 7mm At night lights Mandalay Rainforest Airlie Beach
There were a number of these flies all over this Swamp Wattle, pollinating it.
Illustration for a comparative ecophylogenetic analysis of local myrmecofaunas, based on r/K selection theory and intra / interspecific parabiosis / lestobiosis, particularly focused on allochthonous and invasive species.
[Minettia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 138 (IT: 14) spp]
Same specimen, anterior and sx lateral habitus. Cfr. notes¹ over the above image.
NOTES
1. TBL 5 mm.
Lauxaniidae, Depressa sp. Terrible photo, but such an interesting fly I had to post anyway. Photographed in thick leaf litter beside Chapman Brook.
Illustration for a comparative ecophylogenetic analysis of local myrmecofaunas, based on r/K selection theory and intra / interspecific parabiosis / lestobiosis, particularly focused on allochthonous and invasive species.
[Minettia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 138 (IT: 14) spp]
Conspecific sympatric ♀, sx side.
Not sure, maybe one of the Helina flies, even - Helina abdominalis or Helina impuncta. High Batts Nature Reserve, Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Id update - Tricholauxania praeusta - thanks Roger.
Baliopteridion sp. Along the Rewa River, southern Guyana. Lauxaniidae (Lauxaniid Flies). Det. by Dr. Stephen Gaimari.
Lauxaniid Fly (Lauxaniidae).
Minettia obscura. Lauxaniidae: Lauxaniinae. West Virginia photo.
One trait that sets the genus Minettia apart from similar genera is that the ocellar bristles are essentially parallel, and are longer and stronger than the post-ocellar bristles.
This photo appears in the book Insects of Latin America: a Photographic Guide (Cresswell 2016).
Minettia sp. Lauxaniid photo from French Guiana. The fly shown here measured 10.2 mm long.
This photo appears in the book Insects of Latin America: a Photographic Guide (Cresswell 2016).
Siphonophysa sp. (Lauxaniidae: Lauxaniinae.) Photo from along the Rupununi River, Guyana. Det. by Dr. Stephen Gaimari.
This photo appears in the book Insects of Latin America: a Photographic Guide (Cresswell 2016).
