Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sphaeroceridae?
Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 31-03-2007 19:25
#1
Photographed today at Leerdam, Netherlands. Small fly, appr. 3 mm long. Is this Sphaeroceridae and would it be possible to tell genus or even species from these awkward photographs?
Thank you in advance!
Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 31-03-2007 19:26
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pic 2
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 01-04-2007 15:27
#3
Jan,
your fly (it is Sphaeroceridae without doubts) has on hind busytarsus curved ventral spine. I think this means Sphaerocera curvipes, but I'll be at least as happy as you if somebody confirm this.
Nikita
P.S. I specialy beged Black to ask Dr. Rohacek;)
Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 01-04-2007 19:33
#4
Thank you very much again, Nikita! I hope dr. Rohacek can confirm!
Edited by Jan Zwaaneveld on 01-04-2007 19:34
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-04-2007 09:49
#5
The comment from Jindřich Roháček:
...photos from Netherlands are difficult to identify due poor quality and non-visible diagnostic characters; anyway, it is a species of
Copromyzinae, probably Copromyza sp. or Lotophila. It could be Lotophila atra ... because I do not see the ventral spur on hind tibia; however, I am unsure if this spur really is
absent.
Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 03-04-2007 11:41
#6
Thanks very much for sending mr. Rohaceks comment, Black. Please send him my thanks for helping with this one.
Copromyzinae sp. it is, then.