Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Would this be a Sciomyzidae?

Posted by lynkos on 17-12-2005 19:46
#1
Photographed yesterday, about 7 mm long, could it be a Sciomyzidae?

www.naturamediterraneo.com/Public/data2/lynkos/OSGB05-C05-F.jpg_20051217184243_OSGB05-C05-F.jpg

Thanks, Sarah

Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-12-2005 20:53
#2
I think it is Suillia of the Heleomyzidae.

Posted by lynkos on 17-12-2005 21:47
#3
Thanks Paul. At this moment, my eye slips to the left and I see "my" fly in the latest photo additions column and of course, it is a Suillia, how embarassing!!! Sarah

Posted by Jan Willem on 18-12-2005 00:01
#4
Well not embarrasing at all. It most certainly is a different species and the family Sciomyzidae has a lot of very different looking members. So I don't think suspecting your fly to be a sciomyzid is an embarresment.

Jan Willem