Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Suillia, dead (with tarsus details)
Posted by Sundew on 19-01-2008 02:57
#1
Hi,
For a change, I show you another dead one from our window sill today. It is a well preserved
Suillia that passed away rather recently. Did I photograph the right features for species ID?
Many thanks, Sundew
Edited by Sundew on 31-01-2008 00:49
Posted by Sundew on 19-01-2008 02:57
#2
More details.
In the lateral view (top left), there is a long seta seen between the front and middle femora. Around this seta there were some minute dark hairs that are not recognizable in the picture.
Edited by Sundew on 19-01-2008 03:04
Posted by Andrzej on 21-01-2008 10:26
#3
Probably S. bicolor but the tooth on the fore tarsomere not seen :(.
Andrzej
Posted by Sundew on 31-01-2008 00:47
#4
Dear Andrzej, can you see that tooth in the following pics (I can't)? For orientation, arrows point to the forelegs. I looked as closely as possible to the fore tarsi but did not detect any special structure. So perhaps it is not
Suillia bicolor...
Regards, Sundew
Posted by Andrzej on 31-01-2008 12:29
#5
It is Suillia bicolor ! ;)
The second picture shows a small yellowish spine (or tooth) at the end of fore tarsomere of I tibia.
Regards,
Andrzej
Posted by Sundew on 31-01-2008 13:43
#6
Ahhh - now I see this tiny thing! Besides, I did not know which part of the tarsus is the fore tarsomere, i.e., in which direction to count them (from claws upwards of from tibia downwards). Now I learned the first tarsomere (e1, metatarsus) is the one connected to the tibia, and here is also the tooth.
Many thanks, Andrzej! Till next
Suillia,
Sundew