Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small fly ID - Aulacigaster pappi

Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:20
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Found this fly on a "bleeding" birch stump yesterday, April 26th. 2,9 mm. Telemark, Norge.

Edited by Morten A Mjelde on 28-04-2021 17:27

Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:21
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Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:22
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Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:23
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Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:24
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Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 27-04-2021 23:25
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Posted by Iain MacGowan on 27-04-2021 23:35
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Aulicagaster sp. perhaps leucopeza

Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 28-04-2021 12:01
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Thank you very much! :)

Morten

Posted by Paul Beuk on 28-04-2021 13:02
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The glossy spots on the upper part of the frons are large, so not leucopeza. The only other species with dark postpronota (humeri) in the Palaearctic is A. pappi. In that species the glossy spots are large.

Posted by Morten A Mjelde on 28-04-2021 17:27
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Great! Thank you!

Morten