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 very little blue-violet fly (Chrysotus laesus)
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| Christine Devillers |
Posted on 29-05-2008 21:38
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 Member Location: Spa, Belgium Posts: 1215 Joined: 11.11.07 |
I found this little fly (2mm) on a leave of black-currant (Spa, Belgium,29-05-2008). What could it be ? Christine Devillers attached the following image:  [85.45Kb] Edited by Christine Devillers on 05-11-2008 21:26 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 29-05-2008 21:48
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a dolichopodid, walks like a dolichopodid and quacks like a ... no, hang on - I think I am confused  |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 29-05-2008 22:46
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3917 Joined: 28.07.07 |
I think it is the same like mine (http://www.dipter...d_id=13104), we have lots of them on the Magnolia leaves. Depending on the light they look blueish or greenish - shiny in any case. Sweet little things; Paul said: Chrysotus spec. Regards, Sundew |
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| Igor Grichanov |
Posted on 30-05-2008 09:33
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 Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 1773 Joined: 17.08.06 |
Entirely black legs, big antennal postpedicel, broad face vote for Chrysotus laesus (Wiedemann, 1817) [Dolichopus] (Meigen, 1824: Syst.Beschr. 4: 43) * =Dolichopus laesus Wiedemann, 1817: Zool.Mag. (Wied.) 1(1): 75 ** Type locality: Germany: Kiel. Palaearctic: Armenia; Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia; Germany, Hungary, Italy, N Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova; Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania; ; S Russia: Adygea, Dagestan, Krasnodar; N Russia: Karelia, Leningrad; Russia: Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul, Irkutsk, Magadan, Krasnoyarsk, Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok; Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine: Carpathiens, Cherkasy, Crimea, Kharkiv; "Yugoslavia" * Chrysotus Igor Grichanov |
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| Christine Devillers |
Posted on 30-05-2008 12:16
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Member Location: Spa, Belgium Posts: 1215 Joined: 11.11.07 |
Thanks |
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