Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pallopteridae
Posted by Louis Boumans on 05-09-2005 19:42
#1
This looks like one of them Pallopteridae. Who recognises this fly? Jan Willem?
Edited by Louis Boumans on 05-09-2005 19:42
Posted by Jan Willem on 05-09-2005 21:47
#2
Hi Louis,
You are right, it is a female of
Palloptera ustulata. When and where did you collect it?
Jan Willem
Posted by Louis Boumans on 05-09-2005 22:48
#3
You're more efficient than a key!
This one's also from my kitchen window in Soest (AC 147-466) on 4ix05.
Do you know in what substrate the larva lives? Cheers, Louis
Posted by Jan Willem on 06-09-2005 00:16
#4
Hi Louis,
The larvae live under the bark of trees (Norway spruce, birch, maple, poplar and horn beam). The feed on fungi, but may also become carnivorous, attacking larvae of other Diptera (for example
Stegana (Drosophilidae))and bark beetles.
Posted by Louis Boumans on 06-09-2005 18:10
#5
thanks again!
Today i found a second female, same loc. I have a decaying birch tree closeby.
Edited by Louis Boumans on 06-09-2005 18:12
Posted by Jan Willem on 07-09-2005 00:26
#6
Well, have a closer look at the tree. As far as I know there are more generations of this species per year!
Posted by Ben Hamers on 07-09-2005 17:24
#7
Hello Jan Willem and Louis,
Is this P. ustulata too ? Last week I saw several of them sitting underneath the leaves of a tree at an open place in a wood near Heerlen.
Ben
Edited by Ben Hamers on 22-05-2012 19:54
Posted by Louis Boumans on 08-09-2005 00:21
#8
Well it looks similar enough to me, but JW is the expert, as you may have guessed! My specimen has 2 rows of long bristles on femur I, which I can't see in your picture. Maybe sexual dimorphism?