Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ulidia ?
Posted by Sandy on 17-11-2015 20:50
#1
Can anyone help identify this fly? Photographed in Retama scrub.
Tosos, Aragon, Spain (18/06/2015)
Edited by Sandy on 17-11-2015 21:12
Posted by Sandy on 17-11-2015 20:51
#2
Another view
Posted by Sandy on 17-11-2015 20:52
#3
and another
Posted by John Carr on 17-11-2015 20:55
#4
The wing is like
Seioptera vibrans (Ulidiidae) but that species has a paler head.
Posted by Sandy on 17-11-2015 21:03
#5
Thanks John. With your tip I looked up the family and it may be an Ulidia species
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 27-11-2015 15:14
#6
Indeed,
Ulidia apicalis Meigen, the species with spotted wing, wide, shining black and pitted frons, and yellow halteres.Common in the W Mediterranean region.
Seioptera vibrans always have the frons red.
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 27-11-2015 15:15