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Sciaridae?
jorgemotalmeida
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Posted on 09-12-2006 22:12
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HI


* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 09.12.2006
* size - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - open land
* substrate - above moss

Sciaridae?

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... or maybe Mycetophilidae?
 
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crex wrote:
... or maybe Mycetophilidae?


Mycetophilidae have a pair of spurs in all tibiae. Just in first pair of legs these spurs are not easily visible... perhaps...
I'm waiting.. Wink
 
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My first impression was Sciaridae, too, but the posture is 'off' and several other details do not really fit, most importantly: the absence of the eye-bridge on the top of the head. So: Mycetophilidae it is.
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Paul Beuk wrote:
My first impression was Sciaridae, too, but the posture is 'off' and several other details do not really fit, most importantly: the absence of the eye-bridge on the top of the head. So: Mycetophilidae it is.


is it possible to get genus level? Wink
 
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I cannot on the basis of this picture. No wing venation is visible and that contains most valuable characters.
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