Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small pink Empid/Hybotid

Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-05-2006 21:24
#1

Hello!

Some time ago I posted a tiny (3-4 mm), pink insect with green eyes of which I was even not sure about the order it belonged to. Yesterday I found it again on the same Heracleum plant (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Because of its size the photos are again not very good, but now I'm sure it has to be placed into the Diptera, families Empididae or Hybotidae. Perhaps a small Rhamphomyia species? Thanks for any hint!

insekteninfos.de/diptera/060522/Rhamphomyia_sp.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-05-2006 20:28
#2

This is the empid Dryodromia testacea, apparently quite rare in Europe but recorded on flowers before.