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Psilidae - Chyliza vittata. Hungary
eurythyrea	#1 Posted on 29-05-2011 23:47
Member Location: Posts: 118 Joined: 13.05.10	Hello to everybody! I really do not know the family of this 7mm long fly. Picture were taken today, the fly was sitting on an orchid's stem in a mixed oak forest. I will be glad if anyone could help me. Thank you! Edited by eurythyrea on 30-05-2011 23:09


Stephane Lebrun	#2 Posted on 30-05-2011 09:46
Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07	Psilidae. I think it is Chyliza vittata (with non stripped thorax). Stephane.


Paul Beuk	#3 Posted on 30-05-2011 12:22
Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19326 Joined: 11.05.04	Would be interesting to see if this unstriped version is actually the same species as the striped version, because so dfar the only unstriped versions I have seen were from Central Europe. Does anyone else have info on striped and unstriped Chyliza vittata? Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


eurythyrea	#4 Posted on 30-05-2011 19:30
Member Location: Posts: 118 Joined: 13.05.10	Thank you Stephane, I forgot to turn on the "notify me in email when a reply..." and today went to the NatHistMus of Budapest. With luck I met L. Papp and showed him the pictures. He told me the same species, Chyliza vittata, then we saw an old literature (�rp�d So�s I think), there he wrote "larva develops in stems of Orchis spp." So it was not an accident that I found it on a newly sprout Epipactis! Paul, L. Papp told me if he was a Psilidist, would be study deeper this genus, because it could be uncleared.


Stephane Lebrun	#5 Posted on 30-05-2011 19:37
Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07	Thanks for the feedback. Stephane.


oceanlis2000	#6 Posted on 31-05-2011 16:21
Member Location: Wales, UK Posts: 570 Joined: 15.06.10	Great Photos! Do you know which orchid species this is? Dr Elisabeth A. Harris @FloraConsUK


eurythyrea	#7 Posted on 01-06-2011 07:19
Member Location: Posts: 118 Joined: 13.05.10	oceanlis2000 wrote: Great Photos! Do you know which orchid species this is? Thanks! Yes, This is an Epipactis purpurata.