Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chloropidae - Meromyza m&f
Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-11-2022 20:44
#1
Possible to speculate which
Meromyza this might be? Found among sand dunes at St Cyrus National Nature Reserve in southern Aberdeenshire in July 2020.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 20-11-2022 20:50
Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-11-2022 20:45
#2
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Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-11-2022 20:46
#3
And the final duo...
Posted by kuv on 21-11-2022 10:50
#4
Congratulations for those phantastic pictures!|t
Greetings Kuv
Edited by kuv on 21-11-2022 10:51
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 21-11-2022 14:10
#5
Chloropidae, Chloropinae: Meromyza pratorum Meigen, 1830: This is the largest European Meromyza species (partly longer than 8mm) and one of the few easily to be identified with its long abdomen ending far beyond the hind femora and its frons produced in front as long as half the diameter of the eye. A fine and well agreeing short description is available in Nartshuk & Andersson 2013 (Fauna ent. scand. 23: 213). It is the most abundant Meromyza in our European dunes where it develops in Ammophila arenaria, one of its preferred hosts in Poaceae. Green Meromyza spp. turn yellow after their death. The metallic sheen of their eyes disappears, as the water evaporated between certain submicroscopic cell layers within their eyes, being responsible for the interference colours with about 500nm wave lengths. Along the coastal dunes around Iceland [3 months collecting] and at the Pacific coast of Kamchatka on Ammophila and Leymus arenarius stands I searched this species in vain.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 21-11-2022 14:52
Posted by Roger Thomason on 22-11-2022 17:25
#6
Thanks once again for the ID Michael, very much appreciated. Now,
IF you could give an opinion on this
Cetema sp; |t :)
https://diptera.i..._id=101862
And thanks for the [very well deserved] compliment on the photos Kuv ;););), obviously a person of taste B). More Fantastic photos here :D ...
https://www.flick...nken_u_47/
Regards
Roger.