Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Spiniphora maculata (Phoridae)?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 27-03-2008 10:49
#1

March 25, 2008, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia. Size 3.5 mm.
The wing (with typical dark spot at the base of M1).

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 27-03-2008 10:52
#2

Additional details (scale isn't uniform). I understand that the presence of dm seta (red arrow) rules out S. helicivora, but maybe there's more possible candidates...

Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-06-2019 10:43
#3

To solve a blast from the past: the two species were synonymized in 1979 (!) by Disney in a paper in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. The feature of those setae proved to be intraspecific variation.