Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly with white abdomen
Posted by Isidro on 21-05-2007 08:52
#1
Pe?aflor, Aragon, Spain
Pictures taked yesterday
Maybe 3 mm long
Habitat: I only saw it in salty interior water (low freatic level), with Brachypodium, Suaeda, Phragmites, salty plants. Very common in this strange habitat.
Some ideas?
Thanks ;)
Posted by Susan R Walter on 21-05-2007 13:31
#2
It's a Stratiomyidae, with that abdominal shape, but without looking it up in my references, I couldn't tell you which one.
Posted by Smoggycb on 21-05-2007 13:59
#3
Stratiomyidae alright. Looks like a Nemotelus
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2007 14:07
#4
It is, but there are many more species down South. And quite a few are found in salt marsh-like habitats along the coast.
Posted by Isidro on 21-05-2007 19:27
#5
Many thanks to everybody!
Then, it's a Stratiomyidae, genus Nemotelus???
More approximation???
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2007 19:43
#6
Many of the necessary details to give a certain identification are invisible, but it mostly resembles
N. andalusiacus, known from the Western Mediterranean (Spain, Sicily, Algeria).
Posted by Isidro on 21-05-2007 22:36
#7
Well Nemotelus cf. andalusiacus then.
The genus is sure?
Thanks!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-05-2007 06:02
#8
No doubt about the genus.
Posted by Isidro on 08-09-2008 14:21
#9
N. andalusiacus is a synonym of N, maculiventris. Eleven more species of the genus in Spain.