A large yellowish-golden male flesh fly from South Africa, pinned in lateral view with the terminalia extended, showing the characteristic ring-shaped phallus and red epandrium of this Afrotropical species, Sarcophaga basuto
A yellowish-grey flesh fly from the Afrotropics: Sarcophaga spilogaster, boasting bright red terminalia and characteristic strong, dark markings on the crossveins of the wings. A very typically African species. The striking wing marking for a flesh fly has independently been expressed also in Muscidae and perhaps other, more distantly related families
Sarcophaga basuto and S. spilogaster from the Drakensberg, SA (coll. Nov. 2023)
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16.01.2026 20:33 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A pinned, yellow-dusted male flesh fly with the terminalia extended (red epandrium)
Sarcophaga basuto from the Drakensberg, South Africa (Nov. 2023)
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16.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The cover of Vol. 8 (3), featuring an outline of the island of Singapore and the striking, newly-described fungus gnat Integricypta fergusondavie gen. et sp. nov.
An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae of Singapore, describing 98 new species of fungus gnat
Now also with a brand new cover, featuring Integricypta fergusondavie gen. et sp. nov.
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15.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Willistoniella sp., ropalomerid fly (Ropalomeridae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Limoniinae,bobbing crane fly (Tipulidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Stilt-legged fly (Micropezidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Lauxaniid fly (Lauxaniidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
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07.01.2026 05:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A new genus and new species of Mycetophilidae from Singapore. Paper authored by Fly School instructor Dalton Amorim, Fly School I alumnus @derschwingfliegen.bsky.social, and others
04.01.2026 17:46 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Neoempheria merlio Amorim & Oliveira sp. n. from Singapore
Happy New Fungus Gnats! 🥂🦟🦟
Prof. Dalton Amorim and co-authors name 98 new species of Mycetophilidae from Singapore in a monograph just published in @integsyst.bsky.social
The paper can be downloaded for free from the following link: tinyurl.com/342cs43t
Enjoy!
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01.01.2026 08:58 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
Wonderful
05.01.2026 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long.
But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?
04.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 243 🔁 48 💬 11 📌 4
Great cover photo!
05.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover photo - Male Diostracus prasinus Loew (Dolichopodidae) from Kephart Prong Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, USA. This species has fascinatingly pubescent palpi which shimmer in the light and are used for courting interactions. Photograph by Zachary Dankowicz.
Cover of the issues shows a long-legged fly standing on a natural surface staring at the camera. It has green eyes with diffuse reddish stripes and a metallic green thorax. It has a pair of bright white, flat palps around the mouth.
Just in time for the holidays, a little gift: FLY TIMES Issue 75 (Fall 2025)! 🪰 📰 🎁
Check it out for all the latest Diptera/fly news.
**Don't forget to check out the call for grant applications through the society too!**
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21.12.2025 20:13 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a gray background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a scale encrusted twig background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a scale encrusted twig background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow maggot sits on a scale encrusted twig background, among numerous scale insects.
Don't let this delicate little muppet fly fool you - larvae are voracious predators of armored scale insects! A member of the "gall" midge family, it has abandoned plant feeding for a meat-based diet (like many others).
#Cecidomyiidae: #Dentifibula viburni
Host = white prunicola scale; #Diaspididae
04.01.2026 19:53 — 👍 43 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
A new species of phorid fly described by Fly School III alumnus Valerio Caruso and others
04.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Portrait of Philibert Commerson (1727–1773)
![4. Gnathanodon speciosus, Carangidae, Queensland, Australia. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 5. Gnathanodon speciosus, Carangidae. Port Louis fish market, Mauritius, end of March 1770. (Drawing by Philibert Commerson; from LACEPÈDE [1801: pl. 1, fig. 1, Caranx tres beau]). 6. Scomberoides commersonnianus, Carangidae, Sri Lanka. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 7. Scomberoides commersonnianus, Carangidae. Holotype of Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1801 and Scomber Commersonii Shaw [ex Commerson], 1803 (not preserved), Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, end of Oct. 1770. (Drawing by Paul Philippe Sanguin de Jossigny; from Lacepède [1800: pl. 20, fig. 3, Scombéroïde Commersonnien]). 8. Trachinotus baillonii, Carangidae, Kovalam, India. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 9. Trachinotus baillonii, Carangidae. Holotype of Caesiomorus baillonii Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1801 (not preserved), Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, Nov. 1770. (Drawing by Paul Philippe Sanguin de Jossigny; from LACEPÈDE [1801: pl. 3, fig. 1, Caesiomore Baillon])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cpeqfftyf4dfezgktktecqfo/bafkreid7pp33pqpxb6evotdskmh3zchq3ivn2qblqlk533rx6oqcly6zza@jpeg)
4. Gnathanodon speciosus, Carangidae, Queensland, Australia. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 5. Gnathanodon speciosus, Carangidae. Port Louis fish market, Mauritius, end of March 1770. (Drawing by Philibert Commerson; from LACEPÈDE [1801: pl. 1, fig. 1, Caranx tres beau]). 6. Scomberoides commersonnianus, Carangidae, Sri Lanka. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 7. Scomberoides commersonnianus, Carangidae. Holotype of Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1801 and Scomber Commersonii Shaw [ex Commerson], 1803 (not preserved), Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, end of Oct. 1770. (Drawing by Paul Philippe Sanguin de Jossigny; from Lacepède [1800: pl. 20, fig. 3, Scombéroïde Commersonnien]). 8. Trachinotus baillonii, Carangidae, Kovalam, India. (Photograph: John E. Randall). 9. Trachinotus baillonii, Carangidae. Holotype of Caesiomorus baillonii Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1801 (not preserved), Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, Nov. 1770. (Drawing by Paul Philippe Sanguin de Jossigny; from LACEPÈDE [1801: pl. 3, fig. 1, Caesiomore Baillon])
Fish species discovered in 1767–1772 by Philibert Commerson and Jeanne Barret, mostly from the southwestern Indian Ocean. Part 1
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04.01.2026 09:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Paratype specimen and distribution of Chrysobrycon hesperus. 1. Specimen here considered to be the missing paratype of Chrysobrycon hesperus (P305), with its original label: MEPN-I 13157, paratype, 76.6 mm SL; scale bar: 5 mm. 2. Map showing the estimated localities of collection of the type series of Chrysobrycon hesperus in the Upper Amazon basin of Ecuador (arrow shows holotype).
Morphological and historical evidence provides new insights into the type series of Chrysobrycon hesperus, the type species of the genus Chrysobrycon (Characiformes: Stevardiidae)
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04.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration from one of the couplets of the dichotomous key
Illustrated identification key to Palaearctic genera of Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera: Apocrita)
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#wasps #parasitoids #GBOLIII #darktaxa @marinamoser.bsky.social @krogmann.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @leibnizlib.bsky.social @parasitoidrex.bsky.social
04.01.2026 09:14 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3
Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) karnaliensis, male (A, C, E) and female (B, D, F). A, B. Habitus, lateral view. C, D. Habitus, dorsal view. E, F. Head, frontal view.
First record of Paragus karnaliensis (Diptera: Syrphidae) from India, with notes on Indian species of the genus Paragus
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04.01.2026 09:13 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Megaselia heimingshofensis sp. n., holotype, ♂, Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Lkr. Coesfeld, Haltern am See, “Heimingshof-Moor”, Lat 51.751, Lon 7.264, 30.VI.2023. a. Lateral habitus. b. Right wing. c. Head, dorsal view. d. Hypopygium. e. Hypopygium, left (L) and right (R) views.
A remarkable new species of the Megaselia sulphuripes-group: Megaselia heimingshofensis sp. n. from Central and Eastern Europe (Diptera: Phoridae)
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04.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
![Habitus of male Scatophila spp. 13. S. oltmannsi sp. n. [holotype]. 14. S. oltmannsi sp. n., dorsal view [holotype]. 15. S. pumilio (Loew, 1860) [Portugal, Setúbal]. 16. S. quadriguttata (Meigen, 1830) [Germany, Lower Saxony, Meetschow].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cpeqfftyf4dfezgktktecqfo/bafkreidpqkktwszhmjkctsf4s343wwjdljfrh4n4abrenkvgq3yozhmykq@jpeg)
Habitus of male Scatophila spp. 13. S. oltmannsi sp. n. [holotype]. 14. S. oltmannsi sp. n., dorsal view [holotype]. 15. S. pumilio (Loew, 1860) [Portugal, Setúbal]. 16. S. quadriguttata (Meigen, 1830) [Germany, Lower Saxony, Meetschow].
Taxonomic and faunistic comments on European Scatophila Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae), with descriptions of four new species
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04.01.2026 09:10 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ptilodexia argentea sp. n. from Ecuador
A new species of Ptilodexia (Diptera: Tachinidae: Dexiinae) from Ecuador, with a key to the South American species
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04.01.2026 09:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Alysson tricolor (Hymenoptera: Bembicidae) and its habitat in Regensburg, Germany
Five new prey species of Alysson tricolor Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Bembicidae)
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#Hymenoptera #wasps @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @parasitoidrex.bsky.social @mcorr.bsky.social
04.01.2026 09:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Male of Spodoptera frugiperda, recorded on 26.VI.2021 in a small valley in the vicinity of Velyki Dmytrovychi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Photo: V. Voronov)
First report of the invasive pest species Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Eastern Europe
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#pest #moth @braconidae-ua.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @bioone.bsky.social
04.01.2026 09:04 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Erratum: A new weevil genus and species of the tribe Ithyporini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Central Africa. Integrative Systematics 8 (1): 1–10
Appendix 2 now includes all characters used in the phylogenetic analyses.
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04.01.2026 09:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Amateur entomologist, naturalist & photographer. Shropshire County Recorder & national iRecord verifier for Orthopteroid insects. Author of 'Orthoptera and Dermaptera' & co-author of 'Micro Ladybirds of Britain and Ireland' FSC Publications AIDGAP Guides.
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