Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scathophagidae? --> Heleomyzidae, Suillia cf. pallida

Posted by ukursawe on 24-01-2025 19:43
#1
Hi all!

Today I took a few pictures of a medium-sized fly on a table in our garden. Its still pretty early in the year, but today was rather mild for January. My best guess would be that it belongs to the family Scathophagidae, but I'm just guessing here. Is it possible to identify that specimen from the pictures below?

Germany, Garden in southern Bavaria, Munich (-West), table, 24.01.2025, app.6-8 mm BL

Greetings, Uli
Edited by ukursawe on 24-01-2025 21:56

Posted by John Carr on 24-01-2025 20:30
#2
Suillia

Posted by ukursawe on 24-01-2025 20:39
#3
Hi John,

thanks for the quick response. Heleomyzidae would have been my second guess, I swear :).

Greetings, Uli

Posted by Andrzej on 24-01-2025 20:48
#4
With all probability, it is Suillia pallida

Posted by ukursawe on 24-01-2025 21:55
#5
Hi Andrzej,

thanks a lot, that is even better.

Greetings, Uli