Snail Killing Fly
16.7354, -92.6387
Field Notes
Description:
Really weird fly with elongate eyes. The head is triangular shaped and the antennae have very long arista (best seen in the last picture). 4 mm long.
Family Sciomyzidae.
Habitat:
Came to an ultraviolet light in the garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.
Notes:
Maybe a Grass Fly, Chloropidae
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/156130564 or a Sciomyzidae. Still looking…...The head looks like a Neriidae, but the wings look like Sciomyzidae (and wing pattern always wins):
https://www.google.com.mx/search?hl=es&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1155&bih=…
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedAugust 13, 2014
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