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Brachycera acalyptrata--> Sciapus (Dolichopodidae)
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Posted on 26-06-2013 10:00
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This small fly -7 mm- entered home yesterday june the 25th 2013
(Iberian peninsula: Catalonia: Girona: Beuda, 400 m)
I don't see any coastal breaks in the wing.
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... it has some hairs on posterior spiracle
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I would like to know what I did wrong with the keys...
 
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Sciapus sp. (Dolichopodidae)
 
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Thanks a lot Stephan!
I add two views of the genitalia so if it's possible to get further
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...may be Sciapus heteropygus?
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Without the option to move either image and having to compare different static images of the genitalia it is difficult to be 100% certain, but I'd say you are right.
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The genitalia looks different than that of heteropygus. Are the fore or mid tarsomeres modified? You can send me a specimen for examination.

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It seems not to have specially modified tarsomeres, I'll write you Stefan a private message this afternoon. Meanwhile I think is better to take out the arabic glue and put the fly inside wine spirit-alcohol?

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Rafael, best is to put the specimens in at least 70% (or more) alcohol (ethanol).

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Yes, that's what i was meaning (wine spirit is one of the translations)
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During manipulation, I tried to "open" carefully all the genitalia to make you see all the pieces; may be some pieces went out (but i didn't add anything!). Now it looks more similar to heteropygus, although a female could be able to say "it's not the same" (compared to fig 216 Faune de France):
- the lower part is smoothly curved and ended in a broad appex
- the two branches of the "fork piece" are more broad
- the upper piece is also different
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Leg I
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Leg I
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Leg III...
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... and Femur I
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I think Sciapus holoxanthos Parent or its undescribed relative.
See Parent (1938). Catalonia is not far from Hyeres, type locality.
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