Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Images from Japan J

Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 01:57
#1

Unfortunately this is my sole image of this tiny species.
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1036-1.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-11-2005 10:28
#2

Hmm, hard to be certain. Because of the reddish eyes and the dark grey median stripe on the paler grey mesonotum I first thought of Scaptomyza pallida, a drosophilid of which the larvae live as miners in leaves and vegetable detritus. But looking more closely, there appears to be a large ocellar triangle. That means Chloropidae. And besides that, I think the antennae are to big for the drosophilid.