Day Twenty-Nine

Today I started looking at bee flies from Madagascar.  The fun thing about bee flies from Madagascar is that you have to use your imagination to figure them out.  They are not very well documented and that is pretty obvious.  Finding anything about Madagascar bee flies on (awkward gap filler y'all) 

google scholar/google/jstore/science direct/etc. is like pulling teeth.  I found a couple of dichotomous keys for South Africa, but they were pretty confusing/scattered.  It was a super fun day of eenie-meenie-minie ANTHRANCINAE.  Identifying the geron were pretty easy, they don't have the M2 vein and it is pretty distinct.  They also tend to be on the small side too, I think the biggest (at least in Chile/Argentina) is only 0.7 cm.  The great thing about these bee flies though is their lack of description.  There is a high chance that someone will find a new species of bee fly from this region (or India, because we have flies from there too).  I seriously hope I discover a new species, that is something on my bucket list and it would be kick ass to cross it off.