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 Drosophila sp.
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| Tony T |
Posted on 15-04-2008 23:38
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 Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 662 Joined: 08.02.07 |
At last some flies other than Pollenia; still lots of snow/ice in my back yard. Superficially looks like last year's Sphaeroceridae, see HERE, but antennae different. Length 3.5mm, New Brunswick Canada, 15 April 2008 EDIT: was Small fly Tony T attached the following image:  [117.88Kb] Edited by Tony T on 19-04-2008 15:23 |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 15-04-2008 23:39
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Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 662 Joined: 08.02.07 |
of above fly
Tony T attached the following image:  [155.16Kb] |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 16-04-2008 09:41
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
Drosophilidae ? |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-04-2008 10:06
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19363 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Drosophila, probably a species of the virilis group. Difficult to identify.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 16-04-2008 12:02
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Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 662 Joined: 08.02.07 |
Thanks Phil and Paul. Glad to get the family. At 1st glance it doesn't look anything like the red-eyed yellow beasties flying around my banannas at home; but now I see the family resemblance. |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 16-04-2008 13:51
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Nice hair dye job! And your Pollenia pic sent me looking at them, and I discovered that males may be distinguishable once you've got your eye in for differences in the arrangement of leg bristles and orbital plate:frontal vittae ratios. I will be emailing you with an idea, but want to think about it some more, and I'm a bit busy at the mo.
Susan |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 16-04-2008 16:22
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Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 662 Joined: 08.02.07 |
I didn't even notice. Do you think I could make a career photographing senior citizens? Other colours seem OK; suggestive of chromatic aberration but that causes colour fringes. Got to be a function of the relatively cheap uncorrected lens used for this photo (Nikon 28mm reversed on bellows). |
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