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Lavendel
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Posted on 23-11-2007 17:57
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Hello,
Can you help me identify this fly?
Pupa on dead wasp.
nov 2th 2007 , Walem the Netherlands
Thanks in advance.
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Sandra
 
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underside fly
photo taken on nov 11th 2007 Walem, the Netherlands
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dead fly
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Phoridae, I think (I'd better add)
Edited by crex on 23-11-2007 19:25
 
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You are quite right, crex, the pupa itself would have been enough.
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A Megaselia, I think - a number of species breed in dead insects (though very many are parasitoids). As it is a female, it's going to be difficult to ID with certainty.
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Posted on 24-11-2007 07:54
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Thanks Crex, Paul and Tony!
I've got a lot more of them, they live in a wasp nest I recieved.
Maybe a picture of a male will be decisive? If only I could see the difference between male and female, they're so small...
This is an other one, is it male??
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That also looks like a female - even with the males it's usually necessary to slide-mount the specimens to see the detail to enable specific identification. Megaselia is a "super genus" with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of species. A few have distinctive characters which enable easy identification, but most are rather difficult!
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Tony, thanks for that information.
I'm new at this and don't know what's posible and what's not.
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The latest estimate (guesstimate really) of the total number of Megaselia species wordwide is 'at least 15,000' Shock

Europe alone has probably 1000 species, and Megaselia is by no means a eurocentric genus...
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