Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny fly in midsummer

Posted by Janis on 22-11-2014 20:01
#1

This litte fly landed on my knee last week in june this year. The place is a garden with surrounding pasture and fields, about 50 miles east of Stockholm in Sweden. I have no idea where to start with this species. Any help is welcome!

Posted by John Carr on 22-11-2014 20:52
#2

A similar fly in the gallery is identified as Peplomyza litura.
http://www.dipter...to_id=4893

Posted by Janis on 22-11-2014 21:21
#3

Interesting! There are very few reports of this species in Sweden. Is Peplomyza litura hard to confuse with another kind of Peplomyza?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-11-2014 11:18
#4

Peplomyza intermedia has black spotys along the oral margin (absent here) and P. discoidea does not have a black spot between the antennae (present here), so, yes, this is P. litura.