#nemestrinidae

[ljsbugblog]

haven't seen a Tangleveined fly in so long! I've been wanting to see one again and finally get some proper pretty macros of it, they're so fluffy and beautiful <3

Unknown Tangleveined Fly (family Nemestrinidae, subfamily Atriadopinae).

[mutillids]

Neorhynchocephalus volaticus (Williston, 1883); Nemestrinidae

A weird and rare one.

[onenicebugperday]

@microecobus​ submitted: Nemestrinus caucasicus — fancy european steppe fly.

I think tangleveined flys are underrated — they look like a hybrid between beefly and dronefly (their way of flight is very similar to Bombyliinae flight so you can easily mix up them), and they are so damn cute.

WHAT an immaculate dude. Get a load of that beak, perfect for slorping nectar. And the fuzz!! 10/10 fly design. Definitely agree with you about tangleveined flies :)

[sinobug]

Tangle-veined Fly Couple (Nemestrinidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese flies on my Flickr site HERE...

[drhoz]

#1387 - Trichophthalma sp. - Tangle-veined Fly

Photographed by Kate Fin, 1500m up Mt Buffalo in Victoria.

Tangle-veined Flies, named after the unusual wing venation visible in the second photo, are parasitoids of grasshoppers and beetles as larvae. Although I don’t think they’re going to get much of a meal off the grasshopper in the third photo. As adults, they’re pollinators, and are suitable equipped - Moegistorhynchus longirostris, from parts of South Africa, has a proboscis 80-100mm long, the longest of any fly.

There’s only 300 or so known species, but some are important controllers of grasshopper numbers.

[ljsbugblog]

fly from late last year. still don't really know what this is, but she's beautiful.

Unknown Tanglevein Fly, female (genus Atriadops?).

[drhoz]

A long-proboscid fly with an extra-long, tongue-like proboscis might seem to take extra-long to feed on a flower, but it actually has an advantage over its counterparts with average sized …

[drhoz]