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By pradyuman
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Uploaded Jul 3, 2016. Captured Jul 16, 2015 22:24.
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You have requested an entry to be created for Dolichopodidae but this is a whole family with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The identification system in JungleDragon only works with single species.
Another tip - remove the # from the tags and please set the country for both your photos or even better - geotag the location. Posted 9 years ago
I have made some research and found out that the flies captured are so-called Stilt-legged flies, Mimegralla sp., Micropezidae family, Taeniapterinae subfamily. Members of this subfamily are mostly tropical and often hold their white-tipped front legs forward and wave them like antennae (such as the antennae of an ichneumonid wasp).
5 species are reported from India, two only in Assam and Sikkim. The other 3 are M. albimana, M. albitarsis and M. coeruleifrons.
Based on this photo only I would say they are M. albimana, but I am not sure.
http://www.journalofzoology.com/volume2/v2i5/pdf/1.1.pdf Posted 9 years ago