Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mating tiny flies from Canary Islands - 1

Posted by Isidro on 14-02-2008 22:02
#1

3rd February 2008. Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Habitat: in a wall sorrounded by dry volcanic steppe-lands dominated by Launaea arborescens, Nicotiana glauca, Heliotropium europaeum, Fagonia albiflora... Few hundreds of meters near the sea. Size of the flies: about 3 mm.

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What species can be?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 14-02-2008 22:40
#2

I'd suggest this is a Trixoscelis

Posted by Isidro on 15-02-2008 09:54
#3

Thanks Tpny...
More opinions welcome...