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Aulacigaster ?
Guenael
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Posted on 08-12-2020 19:07
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Good evening,
Small fly found last week in the north of France:
www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos272/temp/diptere%201b%20Hirson%20college%20compost%201dec2020%20GH.JPG
www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos272/temp/diptere%201d%20Hirson%20college%20compost%201dec2020%20GH.JPG
Aulacigaster perhaps ?
Thank you,
Guénael.
 
Andrzej
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Family Sphaeroceridae! Please look at the typical shortened first tarsomere of the hind leg and the reduced chaetotaxy.
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences
 
Guenael
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Ah yes ! seen! Thank you !
And for the species, according to the habitus, it could well be Sphaerocera monilis ?
 
Paul Beuk
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Thank you Paul !
 
Ectemnius
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Hi Guenael,

And only one species has the white frontal tarsae; Sphaerocera monilis Haliday, 1836. Judging by the tip of the abdomen, its a male.

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Ectemnius
 
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