Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown fly

Posted by fleabag on 15-05-2007 19:11
#1
Hi,
Please could anyone help me to id this? Ive been looking around but im still not sure which family it could be.
Taken a few weeks back in rural sussex uk ...im not sure on the size,from memory a small-medium fly?

thanks,

Noel.

Posted by Kahis on 15-05-2007 19:46
#2
It's a long-legged fly (Dolichopodidae)

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 16-05-2007 15:32
#3
I am not sure, but the fly looks like female of:
Gymnopternus cupreus (Fallen, 1823) [Dolichopus] (Loew, 1857: Progr.Realsch.Meseritz 1857: 21) *
=Dolichopus cupreus Fallen, 1823: Monogr.Dolich.Svec. [= Dipt.Svec. 2]: 15 ** Type locality: Sweden: Westrogothia. Palaearctic: Ireland, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia, Russia: Karelia * Hercostomus

Posted by fleabag on 16-05-2007 22:23
#4
thanks for the help Kahis + Igor :)