Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
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| chirpy |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:24
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Member Location: Berkshire, UK Posts: 8 Joined: 01.09.09 |
Hello, I wonder if I could trouble people for some ideas on what this might be:  Large photo available on Flickr here: http://farm3.stat...50df_o.jpg I found several of these on the end of a large fallen rotting tree trunk in the middle of a boggy field. They kept running in and out of the cracks in the wood. It clearly has rudimentary wings and long antennae. 1~2mm (tiny!) Initial thoughts were that it might be a psocid, but it seems more like a fly to me, which is why I'm posting here. Jonathan Michaelson Flickr: http://www.flickr...chirpy_uk/ |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:34
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
it could be a Cecidomyiidae |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:36
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I would imagine some kind of gall midge (Cecidomyiidae). I take it you are from the UK?
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| chirpy |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:37
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Member Location: Berkshire, UK Posts: 8 Joined: 01.09.09 |
Thank you Jorge. I did look at Cecidomyiidae and wondered. Do you think that this one is genuinely brachypterous? Jonathan Michaelson Flickr: http://www.flickr...chirpy_uk/ |
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| chirpy |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:38
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Member Location: Berkshire, UK Posts: 8 Joined: 01.09.09 |
Sorry Paul, I'll update my profile. I am in the UK.
Jonathan Michaelson Flickr: http://www.flickr...chirpy_uk/ |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 01-09-2009 21:38
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
If it ventures into cracks and crevices it may well be.
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 02-09-2009 18:04
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Subfamily Lestremiinae, tribe Micromyini has several possible candidates. It might be Aprionus. You probably did not collect it?
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| chirpy |
Posted on 03-09-2009 08:15
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Member Location: Berkshire, UK Posts: 8 Joined: 01.09.09 |
Thank you Paul. I'm afraid I did not collect it. I went back the other day to look for it again but they weren't there.
Jonathan Michaelson Flickr: http://www.flickr...chirpy_uk/ |
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