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Post by colin12303 on Jun 14, 2013 12:54:44 GMT -8
A couple of robber flies from Madagascar,sorry do not know the species  |
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Post by johnnyboy on Jun 18, 2013 3:16:16 GMT -8
The smaller fly on the left is Microstylum cilipes and the one on the right is probably, in view of its size and bulk, Proagonistes gigantipes. I have an M. cilipes in my collection, as well as a Proagonistes pliomelas (which grows the biggest of the genus) from West Africa.
Johnny
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Post by colin12303 on Jun 18, 2013 9:15:14 GMT -8
Thanks for that.
I didn't have a clue
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Post by bichos on Jul 16, 2013 3:38:39 GMT -8
are those inches or cm???
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Post by bichos on Jul 16, 2013 3:40:41 GMT -8
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Post by colin12303 on Aug 18, 2013 13:19:01 GMT -8
are those inches or cm??? I have got a funny answer for that.Better not though. They are inches |
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Post by w1 on Aug 18, 2013 13:27:32 GMT -8
I've seen a Microstylum magnum specimen in person. Holy mackerel. There's an article on it in the diptera section of this forum.
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Post by bichos on Aug 19, 2013 5:46:53 GMT -8
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Post by w1 on Aug 19, 2013 12:49:19 GMT -8
Yes! Another one on my life list! Thanks
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Post by lucanidae25 on Aug 19, 2013 17:33:44 GMT -8
I've been collecting in Australia for more than 20 years, only ever caught one Phellus olgae female. I was looking for Pseudotaenia waterhousei west of Brisbane and came across a Phellus olgae sitting on a horizontal branch. They were feeding on Buprestidae twice as big as them but how do you catch a robber fly sitting on a horizontal branch? Luckily I made a slapping net myself with a lid that slaps open and shut. I waited the weather got cloudy and very slowly approached it from below, slapped shut the net and shaked the blanch till it droped down in the net. I still couldn't believed it till today that female let me approached her, maybe she has just laid her eggs and on the dying edge.   |
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Post by w1 on Aug 19, 2013 20:29:26 GMT -8
Wow congrats. Pm me. Awesome.
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