Thread subject: Diptera.info :: New flies. ID help

Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-09-2009 16:50
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Jan HC Velterop wrote:
The first 2 pictures are Herina, Ulidiidae (before Otitidae). It could be H. paludum because the frontal stripe looks black. From the behaviour it looks like a signalling male. But I'm not a specialist in this family.
As is evident from your reply. ;) John's answer of Rivellia syngenesiae for the first two pictures is entirely correct. They are not Ulididiae.