Feather legged fly
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Feather legged fly
This is the hind femur of a female Empis staegeri. A 3,5 mm small fly belonging to the "Dance flies".
These flies have a behaviour similar to ours in some aspects ...
" These ornaments appear to have evolved by Darwinian sexual selection in which females compete for access to choosy males that supply courtship (nuptial) gifts ... "
More information can be found in the publication here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36135540/.
/Leif K
Re: Feather legged fly
The entire fly looks like this
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