Thread subject: Diptera.info :: small fly help

Posted by fleabag on 01-06-2007 16:16
#1

Hi,
Please could anyone help to id this?found yesterday in rural sussex uk..from memory 3-4mm.
I thought it looked like what i usually call grass stem flies,but im still not sure what family 'grass stem flies' really are,if any? or maybe its a very loose term for a few families?
thanks,
Noel

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 01-06-2007 16:47
#2

Hi Noel.
It is Lonchoptera, probably, Lonchoptera tristis.
Nikita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-06-2007 20:53
#3

Mid tibia appears to have some curvature: L. tristis.