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Category: Insect & spider

Leg with/without claw

Tibiae without spurs

       
leg fragments leg fragments    

Wing

Wings with a small discal cell or discal cell absent, the leading edge veins often markedly stronger than the rest

         
wing costal margin of wing costal margin of wing wiing wing base

Antenna

Antennae vary in shape, many Stratiomyidae have aristate antennae. Most frequent found antennae form is squad, segmentesd and has a long style at the end,

           
antennae with 4 spines antennae with 4 spines antennae with 4 spines horned antenna horned antenna  

head, eye, palp

 

         
 eye  eye  terminal segment  palp  palp

Other, chitin fragments

Stratiomyidae are often a bright metallic colour.