Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown Empid ?

Posted by fleabag on 08-05-2007 20:57
#1

Hi,
Please could anyone help to id this? found last week in rural sussex uk,maybe 5mm ish...Im guessing its an empid?but i only got a dorsal view... about 15cm away facing this fly was a disco dancing rhamphomyia sulcata ...i doubt that has any significance though?.

thankyou,

Noel.

Posted by Kahis on 08-05-2007 21:02
#2

Beris (Stratiomyidae)

Posted by fleabag on 08-05-2007 21:25
#3

thanks Kahis:) ...first time ive come across Stratiomyidae i think

Posted by Tony Irwin on 09-05-2007 21:17
#4

Beris chalybata female