Thread subject: Diptera.info :: New fly in my garden
Posted by LordV on 14-08-2006 21:40
#1
Haven't spotted this one before. About 5mm body length, sitting on a rhododendron leaf. Taken today South Coast UK
Thanks
Brian V.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-08-2006 21:49
#2
Maybe
Drosophilidae - Scaptomyza? Please check the latest additions to the Gallery.
Posted by LordV on 14-08-2006 21:56
#3
Thanks Black- does look similar to the pic of Scaptomyza pallida.
Brian V.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-08-2006 22:20
#4
May be it is Scaptomyza, but I don't think it is S. pallida at least.
S. pallida hasn't black spots on wings and has 2 row ac.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-08-2006 08:40
#6
Indeed, it is.
Posted by LordV on 15-08-2006 09:00
#7
Thanks all :)
Brian V.
Posted by David Gibbs on 15-08-2006 12:20
#8
or it could be
Palloptera anderssoni Rotheray & MacGowan, 1999, southern specimens in UK have dark smudge on wing tip. only reliable character is aedeagus
Posted by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 13:55
#9
And this is a female, so the only way to identify her may be to introduce a reliably-named live male and see what happens! :D
Edited by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 13:56
Posted by LordV on 16-08-2006 08:33
#10
Thanks again :). I used to have a pet fly called Rodney- would that do :) :)
Brian V.