Thread subject: Diptera.info :: small black fly

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-08-2008 04:06
#1

4-5mm approx. on concrete post in garden. last week

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-08-2008 04:07
#2

photo2

Posted by Xespok on 27-08-2008 07:14
#3

A male Fannia.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 27-08-2008 12:52
#4

t1 broadly yellow + f3 av strong + shetland isles + jizz
my guess F.manicata

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-08-2008 22:57
#5

Lateral view for Nikita

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 28-08-2008 07:58
#6

Ideed, it is Fannia of scalaris-group (which incl manicata). I'd say it looks like F.monilis with badly developed apical brush on t1.
Roger, it seems you have a lot of nice images of this fly, may be you have one more with mid-tibia anterior/posterior?
Nikita

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 28-08-2008 11:23
#7

Dear Roger, additional images aren't nessasery anymore, I wanted to answer fast (it is my old problem), but now I can give a species-level ID: it isn't scalaris-group, it is male of Fannia scalaris (Fabr.) itself.
Nikita