{"id":1100,"date":"2014-08-14T00:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2014-09-02T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T04:26:21","slug":"picture-winged-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/08\/14\/picture-winged-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture-Winged Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are flies from the family Ulidiidae<\/em>. It seems that people did not really bother to give all of them common names, but they are sometimes called picture-winged flies.
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Picture-winged flies from the family Ulidiidae<\/em> on a bracket fungus in Hungary<\/a>.
They are probably the species Myennis octopunctata<\/em> but I have only identified them from the Internet.<\/p><\/div>\n

This particular species seems to like to gather on some bracket fungus. I remember seeing these flies at the same location where the picture was taken decades ago, but I never knew what they were.<\/p>\n

\"Picture-winged<\/a>

Female Ulidiid fly.<\/p><\/div>\n

After I took these pictures I started looking on the Internet and I have identified them from other pictures — which might not be a good way to identify any insect since there are so many of them.
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\"Picture-winged<\/a>

Male Ulidiid fly.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Further Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nFamily Ulidiidae – Picture-winged Flies<\/a> on bugguide.net<\/a>.
\nMyennis octopunctata<\/a> on diptera.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An article about the somewhat bizarre sexual habits of Ulidiid flies<\/a> on LiveScience.com<\/a>.
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