Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Anthomyia?
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| Sundew |
Posted on 01-08-2007 00:47
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, Could this nice fly be an Anthomyia? I met it on an inflorescence of Wild Carrot (Daucus carota) on July 8. (By the way, I have no idea what, in the upper left picture, the little red hook on a petal could consist of...) Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [190.53Kb] |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 01-08-2007 21:08
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7344 Joined: 19.11.04 |
The fly is a male Anthomyia. The red hook-thing is a puzzle - it has an artifical look about it, but if it is natural, I wonder whether it's something like an orchid pollinium, or similar structure. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 01-08-2007 21:23
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Many thanks, Tony. The puzzling hook is certainly nothing of plant origin (pollinium or so). On the other hand, it is too small to be artificial - ? If not a tiny animal itself, it might be the product of an animal... We should ask Anthomyia, male. Sundew |
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