Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Distinctive fly; family please
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 11:10
#1
If somebody can tell me what family this rather distinctive fly comes from i would be grateful, sorry that the photo is not so good.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:12
#2
Mycetophilidae
Neoempheria sp. ?? Paul...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 11:28
#3
Nematoceran? Have you been drinking, Jorge?
Looks more like Clusiidae (
Clusiodes).
Edited by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 11:29
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:31
#4
ooppss... i thought I saw big bristles on legs. :| and big antennae. I'm sleeping. :S
good night. :)
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:32
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 11:32
#5
Dear Jorge,
Thanks for the answer but it is not a Mycetophilid, see the antennae in this new photo, now that I have removed a wing.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:33
#6
no. I was fooled. Paul has reason. Never could be a nematoceran. It is clusiid.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 11:34
#7
I would like to see better a frontal view.
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 11:41
#8
Thanks Paul,
I have now been to the Clusiidae gallery and it looks closest to Hendelia beckeri, Jorge I will try for a better frontal photo later, I only got the camera today and haven't read the manual yet.
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 11:50
#9
OK, the first two photos were using the SuperMacro Mode, these two are taken down the microscope, with practice I am sure I will get better.
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 11:52
#10
And a little closer.
Posted by Gordon on 06-05-2008 12:53
#11
Is this also a member of the Clusiidae?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 13:29
#12
Clusiodes
Posted by Steve Gaimari on 06-05-2008 16:37
#13
Yes, the very bottom photo is a clusiid, but the top photos are not! This is a species of Chyliza (Psilidae)!
Cheers,
Steve
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 22:19
#14
That was my second option... ;)
Posted by Andre on 06-05-2008 22:27
#15
MY GOD! You removed a wing for Jorge?! :D
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 22:31
#16
no comments.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2008 22:45
#17
Yeah, except that you have no comments. [Sigh.] I think you are just upping your posts count. :P
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-05-2008 22:56
#18
errare humanum est. (hence, my "no comments":P) And remember this from Roosevelt: "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
ah... and I don't care about numbers as you intended. :p
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 07-05-2008 02:23
Posted by Gordon on 07-05-2008 05:17
#19
Andre wrote:
MY GOD! You removed a wing for Jorge?! :D
Why not, it was not my wing and the fly was already dead, and I have several others from the same sample. I would do as much for you Andre.B)
My thanks to Steve for helping sort this one out, perhaps Andrew will put it to species for me.
Gordon