Sphyracephala brevicornis. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. 5 July 2014. Not quite as impressive as its tropical cousins, but I still did a double-take when I realized what I was looking at. Please, please, please, let me take a couple of decent shots before you fly away! Only when I looked at the pictures later did I realized that she couldn't fly because she had a malformed wing. Definitely the Diptera sighting of the year.
"""...I did not yet know the photograph of the single fly. It is a Sphyracephala munroi. This fly can also be seen on the other two photographs though there it mainly concerns Diasemopsis varians. The photographs of the munroi fly are, as far as I know, the first ever live photographs of this species...."" Hans Feijen."
Sphyracephala brevicornis. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. 5 July 2014. Not quite as impressive as its tropical cousins, but I still did a double-take when I realized what I was looking at. Please, please, please, let me take a couple of decent shots before you fly away! Only when I looked at the pictures later did I realized that she couldn't fly because she had a malformed wing. Definitely the Diptera sighting of the year.
Feijen HR, Feijen C (2020) A revision of the genus Teleopsis Rondani (Diptera, Diopsidae) in Sri Lanka with descriptions of two new species and a review of the other stalk-eyed flies from the island. ZooKeys 946: 113-151.
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