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This is a stilt-legged fly, named for its characteristically long legs. The fore legs are markedly smaller than the other pairs. These flies belong to the family Micropezidae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropezida...
Spotted on taro (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) in a large semi-urban yard & garden, near a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest. This is in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
I never tire of observing these flies because they move their white-tipped forelegs in the most (anthropomorphically speaking) comical way, like challenging...me...to a bout of fisticuffs. :-)
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