Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Orange-blueish fly: Lauxaniidae?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 30-11-2006 00:28
#1
Hallo, allerseits!

This 5 mm fly sat at our garden lantern yesterday night (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Not very well visible, but the abdomen seemed to be orange-brown. Could it be a Lauxaniid (Pseudolyciella?)? Thanks for any hints!

www.foto-upload.de/diptera/061128/Lauxaniidae_spp_5mm_1.jpg
www.foto-upload.de/diptera/061128/Lauxaniidae_spp_5mm_2.jpg

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 30-11-2006 08:39
#2
Hi Juergen.
I think it is another Tephrochlamys or another Heleomyzidae.
Nikita

Posted by Juergen Peters on 30-11-2006 11:45
#3
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
I think it is another Tephrochlamys or another Heleomyzidae.


Thanks, Nikita! When I saw it sitting there, it seemed to me bulkier and smaller than the slender Tephrochlamys some postings ago. But now I see the similarities.