Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scathophagidae, Cleigastra apicalis? from Romania

Posted by cosmln on 05-12-2007 22:16
#1

Hi,

fly collected near Sibiu (Transilvania).
26.september.2007, size ~7mm

i'm not sure where to put this one: Scathophagidae or Sciomyzidae.

one photo with mounted specimen attached.

thanks for any help,
cosmln

[EDIT]: title changed

Edited by cosmln on 06-12-2007 22:14

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-12-2007 23:06
#2

Scathophagidae. Cleigastra apicalis?

Posted by cosmln on 06-12-2007 00:00
#3

Paul Beuk wrote:
Scathophagidae. Cleigastra apicalis?


Hi Paul,

:)
i really don't know, but my exemplary is not even close so full of setae on the legs like the one from gallery.
but i was close with the family :))

thanks for the help,
cosmln

Posted by cosmln on 06-12-2007 22:17
#4

someone can confirm or infirm this?

Scathophagidae. Cleigastra apicalis?

thanks,
cosmln

Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-12-2007 22:52
#5

Not Cleigastra - how about Phrosia albilabris?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-12-2007 23:00
#6

Similar, yet not identical. Or is that some slight sexual dimorphism? http://www.dipter...ad_id=9410

Posted by Tony Irwin on 07-12-2007 21:25
#7

Paul Beuk wrote:
Similar, yet not identical. Or is that some slight sexual dimorphism?


No, I think both Cosmin's and Gabor's flies are females - Nikita has posted a picture of a male (with clearly clubbed abdomen) in the gallery (http://www.dipter...to_id=1907). I was going to suggest there might be regional dfferences in these females, but then realised that they are both from Transylvania! :D As Paul says the flies are not identical - which is the real albilabris?:p