Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Distinctive fly; family please
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:10
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 Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
If somebody can tell me what family this rather distinctive fly comes from i would be grateful, sorry that the photo is not so good.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:12
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Mycetophilidae Neoempheria sp. ?? Paul... |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:28
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Nematoceran? Have you been drinking, Jorge? Looks more like Clusiidae (Clusiodes). Edited by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 11:29 Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:31
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
ooppss... i thought I saw big bristles on legs.  and big antennae. I'm sleeping.  good night. 
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:32 |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:32
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Dear Jorge, Thanks for the answer but it is not a Mycetophilid, see the antennae in this new photo, now that I have removed a wing. Gordon attached the following image:  [49.56Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:33
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
no. I was fooled. Paul has reason. Never could be a nematoceran. It is clusiid. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:34
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I would like to see better a frontal view. |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:41
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Thanks Paul, I have now been to the Clusiidae gallery and it looks closest to Hendelia beckeri, Jorge I will try for a better frontal photo later, I only got the camera today and haven't read the manual yet. |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:50
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
OK, the first two photos were using the SuperMacro Mode, these two are taken down the microscope, with practice I am sure I will get better.
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 11:52
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And a little closer.
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| Gordon |
Posted on 06-05-2008 12:53
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Is this also a member of the Clusiidae?
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 06-05-2008 13:29
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Clusiodes
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| Steve Gaimari |
Posted on 06-05-2008 16:37
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Yes, the very bottom photo is a clusiid, but the top photos are not! This is a species of Chyliza (Psilidae)! Cheers, Steve |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 06-05-2008 22:19
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
That was my second option... 
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| Andre |
Posted on 06-05-2008 22:27
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 Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
MY GOD! You removed a wing for Jorge?!  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 22:31
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
no comments. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 06-05-2008 22:45
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Yeah, except that you have no comments. [Sigh.] I think you are just upping your posts count. 
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-05-2008 22:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
errare humanum est. (hence, my "no comments") And remember this from Roosevelt: "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." ah... and I don't care about numbers as you intended.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 07-05-2008 02:23 |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 07-05-2008 05:17
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Andre wrote: MY GOD! You removed a wing for Jorge?! Why not, it was not my wing and the fly was already dead, and I have several others from the same sample. I would do as much for you Andre.  My thanks to Steve for helping sort this one out, perhaps Andrew will put it to species for me. Gordon |
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