New Zealand Bat Fly specimen mounted on insect pin

New Zealand Bat Fly specimen mounted on insect pin

New Zealand Bat Fly specimen mounted on insect pin

New Zealand Bat Fly specimen data labels

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paratype of New Zealand Bat Fly Mystacinobia zelandica Holloway, 1976 (Mystacinobiidae, USNMENT01312325) in #USNMDiptera collection - details here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... (images soon there as well) - photos taken on Picturae Pinned Insect Digitization Conveyor

fly specimen on insect pin in side view

fly specimen on insect pin in top view

fly specimen on insect pin in frontal view

habitat of fly

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Apiocera pica Norris, 1936 (Apioceridae, USNMENT00832111) from Wandoo National Park, Western Australia collected in 2011 - more info here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies #USNMDiptera

assassin fly perching on loa dead vegetation

assassin fly pinned on insect pin

assassin fly pinned on insect pin

Little Karoo habitat

#FlyFriday one of my favorite assassin fly observations/collections - Trichoura tankwa Londt, 1994 (Asilidae: Willistonininae, USNMENT01115152) from Little Karoo in South Africa in 2015 - iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations... - #USNMDiptera n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies

apiocerid fly on an insect pin

apiocerid fly on an insect pin

apiocerid fly on an insect pin

data labels associated with apiocerid fly on an insect pin

#FlyFriday Apiocera braunsi Melander, 1907 (USNMENT01115169, Apioceridae) from South Africa - 1 of only 3 known species of genus in South Africa + by far most commonly encountered species - holotype also in #USNMDiptera coll - see n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies

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another specimen of Philoliche sp. from same collecting event photographed when pinned + deposited in #USNMDiptera collection - USNMENT01115070 - n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

assassijn fly specimen on insect pin

assassijn fly specimen on insect pin

assassijn fly specimen on insect pin

assassijn fly specimen labels

#TypeSpecimenTuesday

holotype of assassin fly species Cophura daphne Pritchard, 1943 (USNMENT00995555, Asilidae) from Cuernavaca, Mexico in #USNMDiptera collection - more details here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

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a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection

a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection

a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection

labels from a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection

#TypeSpecimenTuesday holotype of Muscidae / house-fly species Angolia acuta Malloch, 1934 (now Angolina) at #USNMDiptera Smithsonian NMNH Entomology - full resolution files here www.si.edu/object/angol... + n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... #SmithsonianOpenAccess