Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sciaridae?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-12-2006 22:12
#1
HI
* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 09.12.2006
* size - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - open land
* substrate - above moss
Sciaridae?
to see it bigger:
http://www.flickr...754&size=l
thank you!
Thanks!
Posted by crex on 09-12-2006 22:32
#2
... or maybe
Mycetophilidae?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-12-2006 22:51
#3
crex wrote:
... or maybe Mycetophilidae?
Mycetophilidae have a pair of spurs in all tibiae. Just in first pair of legs these spurs are not easily visible... perhaps...
I'm waiting.. ;)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-12-2006 23:25
#4
My first impression was Sciaridae, too, but the posture is 'off' and several other details do not really fit, most importantly: the absence of the eye-bridge on the top of the head. So: Mycetophilidae it is.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 09-12-2006 23:25
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-12-2006 23:26
#5
Paul Beuk wrote:
My first impression was Sciaridae, too, but the posture is 'off' and several other details do not really fit, most importantly: the absence of the eye-bridge on the top of the head. So: Mycetophilidae it is.
is it possible to get genus level? ;)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-12-2006 23:27
#6
I cannot on the basis of this picture. No wing venation is visible and that contains most valuable characters.