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 Dark veined Sphaeroceridae (06.02.09)
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 08-02-2009 22:00
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14370 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! Is it possible to give an ID? At house wall, northwest Germany, length about 3 mm. Thanks in advance! Juergen Peters attached the following image:  [27.33Kb] Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 08-02-2009 22:00
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14370 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Pic #2
Juergen Peters attached the following image:  [36.7Kb] Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 11-02-2009 20:37
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14370 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! I did not have much hope about the other Sphaerocerids, ttp://www.diptera...d_id=19564 http://www.dipter...d_id=19563 but I thought that these dark veins were rather distinctive... Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 11-02-2009 21:45
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7330 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Hi Juergen - I'm not sure about the species, but the appearance of the wings suggests that this is a freshly emerged individual, and it is possible that the wings will change in colour as it matures. I would expect that the milky (pale grey) colour will disappear, and that the dark shading might spread so that most of the wing membrane is darkened.
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| javanerkelens |
Posted on 11-02-2009 22:01
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 Member Location: Netherlands Posts: 2962 Joined: 18.10.07 |
I see many photo's of Sphaeroceridae on Diptera.info that are not identified. What is important to take photo's of...legs or wings or something else, to get maybe an identification..of genus or species? Or are they even whit good photo's difficult.... Joke  |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 11-02-2009 22:31
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14370 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Tony and Joke! Thanks for your comments. If it was a freshly emerged individual, then there were several of them at the wall. They looked rather similar as the frequent Lotophila atra, often found in the last weeks, but were smaller and had those distinctive wings. Therefore I thought of a concrete different species. Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-02-2009 10:51
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
What you'd need to identify Sphaeroceridae from pictures? Well, many setae on different parts of the body and legs, sometimes pollinosity, often also genitalia. Main problem: dark flies with dark setae leave the necessary setae indistinguishable quite often, if focus is slightly off, then it is getting neigh impossible to say much more than subfamily or group of genera.
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