Thread subject: Diptera.info :: I'll be more than happy with family
Posted by Gordon on 30-03-2008 17:28
#1
Can anybody put this to family from my mobile down the microscope images.
Posted by Gordon on 30-03-2008 17:30
#2
It doesn't have an empidid mouth, the legs are long and thin xylophagid perhaps, the antennal arista is fairly thick and arises from the apex of the tear-drop third antennal segment.
Edited by Gordon on 30-03-2008 17:34
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 30-03-2008 17:44
#3
Clinocera sp. :D
Clinocera is an empidid fly in Clinocerinae.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 30-03-2008 17:45
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 30-03-2008 17:46
#4
ok. it was very crazy to give the genus. But I'm pretty sure that this is Clinocerinae.
Posted by Gordon on 30-03-2008 18:11
#5
Thanks Jorge,
Yes I understand the wing venation indicated empid, but it was very thin and leggy and no bitey mouth, but if I knew better I wouldn't have posted those awful photos.
It came from a malaise trap 24-30/3/2008 beside a stream at 1150 metres, there was one other empid in the trap so I will add this to that tube and send them to the High Lord of Diptera.info himself.:)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-03-2008 19:40
#6
Quite extraordinary that it would come to a Malaise trap. Normally you would get these on the water edge only. Occasionally you might sweep them from very low vegetation along streams.
Posted by Gordon on 01-04-2008 07:01
#7
The Malaise trap is only about 1 metres from the water's edge horizontally and and vertically.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-04-2008 07:59
#8
LoL, It probably was 'blown up' or 'scared' into the trap. :D
Posted by Gordon on 01-04-2008 08:24
#9
Its nice to be lucky now and then.
Gordon