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A medium sized black-coloured fly spotted resting on a tree leaf. This Hybos Dance Fly has long slender abdomen and a "hump" on the thorax. The head is small with relatively large red eyes. The hind pair of legs are thicker than the other limbs. It may look like a Robber fly but it is not from the same family - Asilidae.
Around Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
>>>Map accuracy : 1km diameter. My very first spotting of a dance fly. At first I thought this was a unusual species of Robber Fly. ID thanks to Valentin Hamon.
Spotted on Dec 16, 2009
Submitted on Jan 13, 2013
3 Comments
By the way, welcome to the Ranger team.
You obtained the ranger hat within a couple of months, that was real quick!
Thank you Eric, so far there are no known records on Hybotinae flies from Borneo.
Definitely Hybotinae.