Photo 52962340, (c) Philip Herbst, all rights reserved, uploaded by Philip Herbst

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flippie1971

Date

September 30, 2019 07:43 AM SAST

Description

Another signal fly photographed at the edge of the coastal forest 20km north of Durban.
ID credit: Dmitry Gavryushin (Diptera.info)
"Oeciotypa hendeli Lindner, 1957 (Platystomatidae, Plastotephritinae). Check Whittington, 2003" p189-192
I append the document link here. The picture and descriptions are a dead on match. This fly had also been collected at Umhlanga coastal bush, 20km down the road.

https://marjon.collections.crest.ac.uk/17296/1/Taxonomic%20revision%20of%20the%20Afrotropical%20Plastotephritinae_Whittington.pdf

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