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Hello Everyone,

I am not an expert at identifying Arthropods, nevertheless I am trying to build a virtual collection by taking closeup pictures of everything that I find. I have developed CombineZ a program to help with the depth of focus problem and am now taking pictures whenever I can.

There are many flies on my website and I would be pleased if you could visit it and let me know of any mistakes I have made when naming them, just scroll down to the family you are interested in and dive in:-

http://www.hadley...der.co.uk/

I also have a page where I list all of my new species (to me not to science) at the moment there are a few Tipulids that I would like confirmation/help with:-

http://www.hadley...uk/new.htm

Thank's to Paul for this resource on the web I will place a link to it on my site in due course.

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Limonia 1 of 6/6/2004 resembles Neolimonia dumetorum, as illustrated in the French Le guide entomologique by Patrice Leraut and Philippe Blanchot. A species of humid forests.

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Tephritidae:

Campiglossa spp. look to be misidentified - these are different species, but Tephritidae 1 is, indeed, C. loewiana. Urophora "jaceana" looks to be a solstitialis, but U must see the aculeus tip on a slide under higher magnification to ID.

The rest is ok, congratulations!

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Tachinidae: Most seem OK but these are my comments:
* "Alophora" isn't used as a genus now (only subgenus) - change to Phasia
* I need to see the "Tachinidae" specimens because I can't see enough features on the photos to key them and they're not instantly recognisable to me :)
* I would like to see the "Tlephusa" specimen because this would be a very good record - if it were true (which I doubt) ;)

PM me if you want to send me any specimens :)

Chris R.

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Tachinidae 1&2 = Eriothrix rufomaculata
'Tlephusa' seems to be Epicampocera succincta,but difficult to see


THeo

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[quote]Alan Hadley wrote:
I have developed CombineZ a program to help with the depth of focus problem and am now taking pictures whenever I can.

Thank you Alan:

I must confess I am one of those people who use your program.

May I give you an advice: please do not post poor quality pix. Your program works excellent, especially if the light is good, but it seems to me that the pix I saw could play a role of anti-advertizing.

Just to show what your software can do (the pix were taken through the eyepiece of a common binocular by a 5 mp Nikon soapbox; instead of a grip, it was joined to the microscope tubus by a piece of a small plastic bottle and a piece of common boxbottom foam. Here you are.

This is Herina merzi Kameneva 2007 from Switzerland. I made all the pix for this Elena's paper.