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Juergen Peters
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Posted on 22-10-2006 03:17
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Hallo, allerseits!

This tiny (1.5-2 mm) fly also visited the light yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Does it belong to the Pipunculidae? Thanks!
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Platypezidae, I think.
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Hello, Paul!

Paul Beuk wrote:
Platypezidae, I think.


Ah, thanks, that family did not come into my mind. I was not happy with Pipunculidae, and the fly did not have Nematocera antennae like a male Simulid, but I did not know which other family it could be.
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Hello, again!

Juergen Peters wrote:
with Pipunculidae, and the fly did not have Nematocera antennae like a male Simulid


Here is another one from yesterday with filamentary antennae. Maybe this is a male Simulium sp.?
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Hi J?rgen
I think your first picture is a simuliid as well. The radial veins show well in contrast to the very faint other veins. I think in Platypezidae the median and cubital veins would be visible. As for the antennae, I suspect this male is holding them back over its eyes, which they sometimes do. Simuliids regularly come to light, and I don't think this is something that platypezids do.

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Hello, Tony!

Tony Irwin wrote:
I think your first picture is a simuliid as well.


Thanks! In any case this is a very astonishing Diptera - even more so for a Nematocera.
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