Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sochi. Opomyza?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 04-03-2006 19:18
#1

Sochi, 04mart, city park.
Still very cold and winter fauna in Sochi.
4mm, in grass
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1281-1.jpg

Posted by Jan Willem on 05-03-2006 16:50
#2

Hi Nikita,

This is a male of Geomyza tripunctata Fall?n, 1823 (family Opomyzidae). Other species of this family have been found under rather cold circumstances. For example two specimens of G. subnigra in mid-February in copula (you have to do something to get warm ;)).

Jan Willem

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 05-03-2006 17:51
#3

1. Thank you Jan.
2. Hell, I did mean Geomyza;)
3. Sochi is Black sea shore, about +10.
Nikita