Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Ephydridae

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 21-05-2016 21:56
#1

Can anyone suggest a family for this fly? Sweeping over samphire area. Townsville, Queensland.

Edited by Graeme Cocks on 02-06-2016 18:59

Posted by John Carr on 21-05-2016 22:28
#2

Drosophilidae or a related family.

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 21-05-2016 22:57
#3

Thanks John

Posted by Paul Beuk on 23-05-2016 07:56
#4

Seems like Opomyzoidea: Periscelididae or something like that.

Posted by John Carr on 23-05-2016 11:29
#5

Paul Beuk wrote:
Seems like Opomyzoidea: Periscelididae or something like that.


I forgot some of them had Ephydridae-like antennae.

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 23-05-2016 21:34
#6

Another of the same species.

Posted by Tadeusz Zatwarnicki on 02-06-2016 16:44
#7

It is a member of Ephydridae. A species of Ceropsilopa.
Tadek

Posted by Graeme Cocks on 02-06-2016 18:58
#8

Thanks Tadek