Photo: The study organism, Incurviseta cf. maculifrons, feeding. Photo courtesy of article authors.

New #OpenAccess work in #RESPhysEnt

#Pollination ecology & mouthpart #morphology of a pollen-feeding fly #Incurviseta cf. maculifrons (Diptera: #Lauxaniidae) in the Australian Alpine
doi.org/10.1111/phen.70018

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Minettia fasciata agg. flies seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 01/08/25 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Lauxaniidae #Diptera

The taxonomist of this group have a feedback. This is no Sapromyza, but Poecilominettia instead.

Neotropical genus with key diversity in forest understory. Larvae likely saprophagous on decaying plant matter. Found from Mexico to Argentina. 🧪 #Diptera #Lauxaniidae #Biodiversity

The most triangular-headed creature I've ever seen is this triangular-headed fly Trigonometopus frontalis #Lauxaniidae. Are there even more triangular-headed things or is this the most triangular-headed thing?

Still going through #Diptera from North Wales trip. Here is Poecilolycia vittata an uncommon and wonderfully stripy #Lauxaniidae swept from lowland heath on Ynys Môn

Homoneura interstincta from the moth trap, May 2020. Doesn't have the black spinules reaching R4+5 like the rest of the genus. Possibly more common than H. mediospinosa which was known as H. interstincta prior to Merz's 2003 paper.

#Lauxaniidae #Diptera #entomology