Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophila?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-01-2007 04:54
#1

Hello!

This tiny 2 mm fly came to the light last night (Ostwestfalen/Germany, 4-5 ?C). I'm not sure, whether it is Drosophila obscura again (numerous here in the last weeks before the frost), it seems more slender, with a bigger head.

Edited by Juergen Peters on 29-01-2007 04:55

Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-01-2007 08:34
#2

A male of the D. obscura grouP: the two 'sex combs' (on the first and second tarsal segment of the fore tarsus) are well visible.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-01-2007 18:18
#3

Hallo, Paul!

Paul Beuk wrote:
A male of the D. obscura grouP: the two 'sex combs' (on the first and second tarsal segment of the fore tarsus) are well visible.


Many thanks! I had already speculated that it was more slender, because it was a male :-).