Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platycephala umbraculata by Kahis

Posted by Isidro on 29-06-2008 13:56
#1
Yesterday. La Pe?a, Huesca, NE Spain. 500 meters high. Mix of mediterranean and mountain climate. Habitat: in the side of a lake, between the segdes (Phragmites australis), in a company of high numbers of Calopteryx xanthostoma. Size: about 4-5 mm.

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What species can be?

Thanks.
Regards
Edited by Isidro on 30-06-2008 05:56

Posted by Susan R Walter on 29-06-2008 17:25
#2
Sciomyzidae.

PS Phragmites is 'reed' in English, not 'sedge'. Sedges are Carex and related species (Cyperaceae)
Edited by Susan R Walter on 29-06-2008 17:30

Posted by Kahis on 29-06-2008 21:11
#3
Platycephala umbraculata (Chloropidae)

Posted by Isidro on 30-06-2008 05:55
#4
Thanks a lot!!! This determination to species level and with sure tone, are the best!

Posted by Kahis on 30-06-2008 08:35
#5
Well, there is always the possibility of a new species... :)

Fauna Europaea lists three Platycephala species. I am unfamiliar with the third one (P. rugosa), but it has a southeastern distribution in Europe.