Thursday, 11 March 2021

Retro fly addition makes 300

While searching for something completely unrelated I found a reference to two recordings of Campichoeta obscuripennis in the 2018 Dipterists Digest. I was sure I had recorded it, too, but it wasn't on my reserve species list. So it was recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2020. When I say "recorded", I see no actual record in the public sphere of the first two. Such is the battle of fly recording.

Here's a pic of the one I had in 2020


That brings the Cullaloe total for Diptera to a semi-respectable 300 species. Since this is already old and overlooked, the recent anthomyiid Lasiomma seminitidum would have been species 300.

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