Thread subject: Diptera.info :: [Diptera with strange antennae like a paintbrush] - Italian Orthocladiinae to ID

Posted by John Carr on 27-11-2012 06:13
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Excluding obviously inapplicable genera, the first few couplets of the key to Orthocladiinae ask

Eyes hairy or bare? I looked at the larger pictures on Flickr and thought I saw hairs, but that branch of the key fails.

Wing hairy or bare? Looks quite hairy to me.

Now there are about 15 genera left.

Eye with no dorsal extension, wedge-shaped, or parallel sided? Looks wedge shaped in the larger size. So about 10 genera.

The photos aren't clear enough to show details like anal point present vs. absent. (The anal point is a fine extension of the tip of the last tergite.) The freshly emerged male has antenna hairs laid flat, obscuring the presence or absence of an apical seta on the antennae.

So some Orthocladiinae. It may be distinctive to an Italian expert.