Thread subject: Diptera.info :: IImages from Japan L
Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 02:09
#1
Are these these three images showing Lauxaniidae flies?
Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 02:10
#2
A similar fly in blue
Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 02:11
#3
A similar fly (to Image nr 1) in slim.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-11-2005 10:41
#4
They probably are, although I cannot be entirely certain about the third one.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-11-2005 11:01
#5
It is just what I wanted to ask you, Paul.
Third one looks like Neuroctena (=Dryomyza). Is it what you think about?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-11-2005 11:06
#6
Well, it is very difficult to say without a size reference.
Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 11:34
#7
Thx Paul for this and others.
I think all these flies were middle-sized, 5-6 mm. In theory thereis a single species of Dryomizidae occuring in Japan, a rather common one, and it is a real giant compared to these.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-11-2005 11:59
#8
Yes, it must have been a very unlucky dryomyzid if it got to be only this size. Lauxaniidae seems the most likely, then.
Posted by Xespok on 29-11-2005 12:38
#9
http://xespok.net/gallery/Unknown_family_Diptera_Brachycera/DipteraB_1000033257
I just realized that I have another view of the same individual.
Edited by Xespok on 29-11-2005 12:38
Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-11-2005 12:52
#10
If you still have the an unedited version, can yu send it to my gmail address?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-11-2005 15:11
#11
Still difficult to say, but reddish eyes and the colour pattern remind me of some species of
Drosophila. The necessary details, however, are not visible.