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Ok, then we have done another one

Very cool, this is an entirely endemic subfamily and very unusual

2016 KTP







Appears to be the same as 2017 file 1.

2017 KTP file 1







Appears to be the same as 2016

re: 2017 KTP file 2 Pic taken from the front is fantastic

For a start, we do the Villini

Villini: Wing usually with interradial (= auxillary) crossvein between R2+3 and R4 absent (2 submarginal cells) (Figs 91–93); claws without a tooth at base; pulvilli sometimes present

Exoprosopini: Wing with interradial crossvein between R2+3 and R4 present (3 submarginal cells) (Figs 94–96, 98–99), sometimes also cell r4 divided into two by a crossvein (4 submarginal cells) (Fig. 97); claws with a tooth (= conical pulvillus) at base

Here a wing with auxilliary crossvein

Now we look at the flies without such aux vn

KTP 2016 is without
so it's a Villini

Now we look at the head:

Antennae with scape and pedicel of similar width, flagellum elongate, usually onion-shaped, composed of a single flagellomere
Face rounded, at most only slightly bulging
Hind margin of eye with a bisecting line (arrow)



They end of the keys says:

Villa: Fore tibiae with short bristles, spiculate; pulvilli absent; wing with at most a narrow basicostal infuscation, male often with a patch of silvery scales at its base; usually with extensive yellowish hair, especially on thorax; abdomen with a more or less distinctly banded pattern and one or more pairs of tufts of black scales at sides.


Villa is a large, cosmopolitan genus of mostly very similar looking species, some of which can only reliably be separated by differences in the genitalia.

Hosts: Immatures have been recorded as internal parasitoids of the pupae of Lepidoptera, Tabanidae and Myrmeleontidae.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Africa South of the Sahara: 43 species.

I'd say these are all perfect Villa spp.

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 7:52 pm Ok, then we have done another one

Very cool, this is an entirely endemic subfamily and very unusual

Just to be sure - I'm writing up the brown one as Capocles podlipaevi sp. n., correct?

And the green one as Plant hopper, Dictyopharidae, subfamily Dictyopharinae.

The Villa sp. ID is for 2016 and 2017 file one bee flies only, at least for now - correct?

Thank you Wizard of all Wizards!

2016 and 2017 are Villa, the next one I am not sure


and the other ones are not Villa and I have no clue

A big caterpillar, 5cm+


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