Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Body-builded

Posted by Pierre55 on 05-01-2008 17:00
#1

Pic taken in Belgium on 02.09.2001
No other view...
No idea of the family...
Thanks in advance for your help :)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-01-2008 17:01
#2

hmm. Hippoboscidae?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-01-2008 17:08
#3

I am disappointed, Jorge, that you don't recognise a sphaerocerid when it stares you in the face like that.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-01-2008 17:22
#4

It happens. Strong legs are typical for Hipposbocid, and the very flattened body like this one.

Posted by Pierre55 on 05-01-2008 17:26
#5

Copromyza sp ?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 05-01-2008 22:17
#6

I think it's Sphaerocera

Posted by Pierre55 on 05-01-2008 22:38
#7

Thanks Tony :)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-01-2008 01:13
#8

Tony Irwin wrote:
I think it's Sphaerocera

So did I but I did not have a key here to check that. ;)