Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phaonia pallida, Thricops diaphanus - or Pegomya...?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-06-2008 22:53
#1

Hello!

I always have difficulties with these orange flies. Very numerous last week at hedges (northwest Germany), about 6 mm.

Larger pic:
http://www.foto-u...6mm_M2.jpg

Edited by Juergen Peters on 15-06-2008 01:42

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-06-2008 22:54
#2

One older (June-03).

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-06-2008 10:43
#3

No 1 is a male Phaonia pallida.
No 2 is a female Achanthiptera rohrelliformis (one of my favourite muscid).

Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-06-2008 20:03
#4

Hello, Stephane!

Thanks for your reply!

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
No 2 is a female Achanthiptera rohrelliformis (one of my favourite muscid).


Ah, very interesting. I never heard of that genus/species... B)
(I see: it's in the gallery, but I did not take it into account, becaus mine did not have such a distinctive dark "spear" marking on the thorax.)

Edited by Juergen Peters on 15-06-2008 20:05

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-06-2008 20:19
#5

Yes, this dark presutural vitta can be present or not. If you've got a high resolution and sharp picture, you'll maybe able to see setulae on apical section of R1 vein (the Achanthipterinae subfamily definition).