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 Trixoscelididae - Trixoscelis sp.
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 11:29
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Hi * locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL * date - 2007.09.20 * size - 6 mm (medium fly) * habitat - woodland * substrate - stucked on Araneidae web spider.. That's why the wings are so damaged.  I think this could be a Sciomyzid. It would be the first in this area!!! Sorry for bad quality of photos. EDIT---> Title changed from "Sciomyzidae?" to "Trixoscelididae - Trixoscelis sp. " jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [188.49Kb] Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 21-09-2007 15:50 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 11:30
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
another....
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 11:31
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
another shot..
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 11:33
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
other...
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 21-09-2007 12:41
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9475 Joined: 24.05.05 |
not Sciomyzidae. May be Suillia variegata? Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 13:13
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this doesn?t seem an heliomyzid.. i think..  |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 21-09-2007 15:26
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Trixoscelis!
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 15:38
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Paul Beuk wrote: Trixoscelis! is this rare to see? Right? |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 21-09-2007 15:43
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
They are not exceptionally rare or so. They are just encountered infrequently. Mostly found near the soil, I think.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 15:44
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Is it true that this fly belongs to a new family: TRIXOSCELIDIDAE? If so...  It would be great to know which Trixoscelis... for Portugal there are: T. aproximmata T. serpens Which one? Or is another species? |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 21-09-2007 16:43
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2419 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Hi Jorge !, catch the flies This is Trixoscelis of so called obscurella-species group !. thera are 4-5 species, sometimes very similar (both crosseins clouded), so without straight wings I couldn't tell more (rather not approximata where the posterior crossein is sligthly louded and rather step not over the vein. Andrzej |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-09-2007 17:02
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Andrzej I caught the fly on spider web (Araneidae). It was almost dead, and the wings curled a little.  Maybe there are more, but it is raining at the moment. Trixoscelididae used to be in Heleomyzidae traditionally. True? Is it a real family now? |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 21-09-2007 17:10
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2419 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Hmm, There are a lot of people and lot of opinions. I am deeply convinced that is a rather young (as for the animals) but a monophyletic group. Andrzej |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-10-2007 09:00
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Andrzej, Do you have a usable key to European Trixoscelis species? The older one by Hackman does not really help me to get where I need. I have some material from France and Greece that could do with/need identification. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 12-10-2007 09:07
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Andrzej, i would need that key as well... To see wing venation so I can know which of 4 species (the approximata was discarded). I hope "to fix" the wings.. |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 12-10-2007 12:49
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2419 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Hi, I use the key of Hackman and additionally other descriptions. The key to all Europaean species has not been yet made. In my opinion a key to Trixoscelis species should include all Europaean, and from North Africa and the asiatic species described by some authors also (some species are more widely distributed in the Mediterranean basin as we suppose) Few weeks ago I worked out three papers on Trixoscelididae (one from Turkey with a new species dedicated to Nikita , second on UAE Trixoscelis species including two new to the science and to Diptera Stelviana with notes on the synonymy of T. canescens). I hope its will be printed 2007 and 2008.P.S. Jorge I hope that you collected the specimens for ID ? Andrzej Andrzej |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 12-10-2007 12:58
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
yes. I collected one specimen. Let me know your address. I will send today a bunch of posts.  |
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| pierred |
Posted on 13-10-2007 06:33
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1475 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, Andrzej wrote: one from Turkey with a new species dedicated to Nikita Well, congratulations... Pierre Duhem |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-10-2007 09:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Trixoscelis nikitiensis? |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 13-10-2007 10:01
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Andrzej: Done! I sent for you the Trixoscelis! It is on the way. |
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