Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sphaeroceridae, March 20, 2007

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 22-03-2007 15:01
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Collected by sweeping over dry grass and soil in our town park near the river. Size 2.5 to 3 mm. And here's what Jindřich Roháček says:

This species is easily recognizable as it is the only taxon of European Copromyzinae lacking apical spur on hind tibia. It is Lotophila atra (Meigen, 1830), a very common polysaprophagous (mainly coprophagous) species, originally probably Holarctic, now subcosmopolitan in distribution.

Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 22-03-2007 15:02