Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae

Posted by Clive Lau on 15-08-2024 04:33
#1

Is this Lispe orientalis?

Edited by Clive Lau on 15-08-2024 04:35

Posted by Clive Lau on 15-08-2024 04:35
#2

Head & wing

Posted by John Carr on 15-08-2024 17:54
#3

In Flies of China one gets to Lispe orientalis only by following alternative "各足胫节均灰黑色" (all tibiae entirely gray-black). In Xue and Wang (2005) this keys to Lispe orientalis.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 16-08-2024 13:34
#4

Comparing with scale (1 mm on photo) total body length about 4.5 mm, correct?
All tibiae yellow which exclude L. orientalis (https://diptera.info/photogallery.php?photo_id=3582). Lateral photo with tibial chaetotaxy would be helpful, so far I vote 1 : 10 that it is L. pectinipes.

Posted by Clive Lau on 16-08-2024 17:19
#5

Thanks John and Nikita.

Posted by Clive Lau on 17-08-2024 02:54
#6

The body length is about 5 mm

Posted by Clive Lau on 17-08-2024 08:59
#7

Lateral view

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-08-2024 19:32
#8

Dear Clive, leg chaetotaxy is still badly visible. But it is L. pectinipes.

Posted by Clive Lau on 19-08-2024 03:22
#9

Thorax

Posted by Clive Lau on 19-08-2024 03:23
#10

Underside

Posted by Clive Lau on 19-08-2024 03:26
#11

legs and hind leg (detached).. Hope these additional pictures can help to confirm further the species is Lispe pectinipes.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-08-2024 14:16
#12

Leg chaetotaxy is still unclear. However, I'm almost sure that it is L. pectinipes.
You can check your specimen yourself using my key:
https://ia801908.us.archive.org/20/items/amur-20-2-vikhrev/Amur20-2_Vikhrev.pdf