Thread subject: Diptera.info :: And who would this be?

Posted by lynkos on 10-10-2006 16:38
#1
When I saw it, I thought Bombyliidae, but then others who without doubt understand more than I do have proposed Empididae. Photographed yesterday near Rome, about 4 mm long.

www.naturamediterraneo.com/Public/data5/lynkos/1CM9A906-C19F.jpg_2006101094233_1CM9A906-C19F.jpg

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www.naturamediterraneo.com/Public/data5/lynkos/3CM9A906-C21F.jpg_2006101094416_3CM9A906-C21F.jpg

Thanks, Sarah.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 10-10-2006 18:10
#2
Rhamphomyia caesia (Empididae) female (or possibly geniculata), but there a few Italian species with which I'm not familiar - it might be one of them!
Edited by Tony Irwin on 10-10-2006 18:20

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-10-2006 18:32
#3
Tony,
it seems to me that on 2-nd image is visible that R4+5 forked?
Nikita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 10-10-2006 20:19
#4
Nikita is quite right, this a species Empis, but I am not going to burn my fingers and at present will nit give any species name.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 10-10-2006 21:47
#5
Ooops! :(

Posted by lynkos on 11-10-2006 06:33
#6
Thanks to everyone. So it is an Empipidae, Empis sp.?