Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai08. Sphaeroceridae?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 07-01-2006 14:38
#1

Khao Khitchakut forest, 5mm.
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1114-1.jpg

Posted by Jan Willem on 08-01-2006 13:52
#2

Hi Nikita,

Unfortunately this is not one of your best pictures, but I would say it is not a sphaerocerid. It looks like this fly has markings on the wings, is that correct?

Jan Willem

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 08-01-2006 14:55
#3

Hello Jan.
Yes, fly has markings on the wings.
Nikita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-01-2006 00:16
#4

The fact that the orbital plates are removed from the eye margins should be a pointer. Unfortunately, as my bed calls, I have no time to sort it out now.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-01-2006 15:03
#5

I'll send some more image of this fly, may be it helps.
Thank you, Nikita

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-01-2006 14:18
#6

I add one more image of same fly (in Thai English "same-same fly":D).
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1114-2.jpg

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-01-2008 17:01
#7

Poecilosomella Duda, Sphaeroceridae (Jindřich Roh?ček, pers. comm., actually he didn't see any pictures but was quite positive when patterned wings were mentioned..)

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-01-2008 17:11
#8

P. punctipennis seems to be the commonest synantropic species in the region. Description of the wing of a closely related P. affinis: light brown, darkened around h, base of 2nd costal sector, fork of R2+3 and R4+5 and apex of R2+3. Arista (in the same P. affinis) about 4 times as long as 3rd antennal segment, with short cilia. Source: Hayashi Toshiiko (2002) - Description of a new species, Poecilosomella affinis (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from the Oriental and Australasian regions - Med.Entomol.Zool. 53 suppl. 2: 121-127

Posted by proctoss on 11-01-2008 20:14
#9

it flies like a sphaeroceridae of South Africa (my old foto)

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-01-2008 23:12
#10

Thank you ;)

Posted by Jan Willem on 12-01-2008 18:24
#11

Wow, how beautiful flies can be:).