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Telostylus sp.
Neriid flies from Telostylus genus. These were seen in the same area where a Telostylinus sp. was also spotted: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/163.... Family Neriidae species are known as cactus flies, or banana stalk flies.
Backyard, spotted on a fallen banana stalk and surrounding weeds.
According to zipcodezoo.com, there are 5 species in the Genus Telostylus distributed in the Philippines: T. binotatus (Bigot, 1859), T. maccus (Osten Sacekn, 1882), T. niger (Bezzi, 1914), T. philippinensis (Cresson, 1926), and T. vittatus. Sample Telostylus sp: http://gaga.biodiv.tw/9501bx/978.htm. Related spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/153....
Spotted on Nov 25, 2012
Submitted on Nov 28, 2012
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