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 Another Sphaeroceridae
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-07-2006 11:28
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3338 Joined: 17.10.05 |
July 21, 2006. Size 2.5 to 3mm. This one was kindly identified by Dr. Jindrich Rohacek as a Rachispoda lutosa (Stenhammar, 1855). According to his comment, it's "a common paludicolous species living on mud at water of various kind, also in boggy meadows and other wet habitats". Dmitry Gavryushin attached the following image:  [113.82Kb] |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-07-2006 11:28
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3338 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Another view.
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-07-2006 11:30
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3338 Joined: 17.10.05 |
The head.
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 25-07-2006 16:36
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9491 Joined: 24.05.05 |
It is small fly always siting on the silt altogether with Ephydrids like Parydra? In this case my Sphaeroceridae http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=621&pid=2243#post_2243 is Rachispoda lutosa too? Nikita Vikhrev attached the following image:  [31.53Kb] Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-07-2006 17:27
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3338 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Nikita, you should ask an expert, moreover, this very depicted specimen is now in your hands  , yet the habitat where it was collected fits just perfectly (remember that bog with lots of Sciomyzidae? P. glabricula was caught somewhere near, too). |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 25-07-2006 19:07
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I think yours is too dark and glossy for Rhachispoda. Maybe one of the Leptocera species?
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 25-07-2006 19:52
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9491 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Thank you Paul, but unfortunely I can't share this educated conversation, because I still haven't got Pitkin's Sphaeroceridae key from Royal Entomol Soc Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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