Thread subject: Diptera.info :: psychodidae
Posted by Eddy Clerx on 06-10-2008 00:26
#1
I found some pictures of a clogmia albipunctata in the diptera galery. They seem to me very similar to the one I shot. (Found n our bathroom) south netherlands.
I'm advised to leave it under Psychodidae spec. Can you confirm this.
Posted by phil withers on 06-10-2008 16:40
#2
For once I'm going to stick my neck out: this certainly has the feel of
Clogmia, and the antennae look right (the bathroom is also rather diagnostic). So, yes, I think this is correct.
Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2008 19:22
#3
Clogmia albipunctata.
Posted by Eddy Clerx on 06-10-2008 20:24
#4
Thank you both for your reply. (and for your courage!;) )
Posted by Louis Boumans on 08-10-2008 10:04
#5
Interestingly,
Cogmia albipunctata is not in the 2002 Dutch checklist, prepared by Rüdiger Wagner and Paul Beuk. This is surprising if it is indeed such an ubiquitous bathroom fly.
Wagner & Beuk (2002) mention
C. rothschildi as the only
Clogmia, and the recent Dutch species register mentions a second species
tristis, but not
albipunctata.
Then Fauna Europaea mentions
Clogmia albipunctat-us, i.e with masculine ending, absent from the Netherlands, but recorded from i.a. France and Germany.
In short, this may be a new species record for the Dutch fauna?!
Posted by Xespok on 08-10-2008 12:32
#6
It is not on the Hungarian list either, yet it is one of the most commonly seen species here. I am fairly sure that it occurs everywhere in the world. There are very few specialists for Psychodidae, and few people send samples for them from toilets. This species does not seem to live in these countries in the wild, I do not exactly know where the species originates from.
However, I do not know the other Clogmia sp. C. albipunctata or -us was confirmed for my images both by Rudiger and a Japanese specialist.
Posted by phil withers on 08-10-2008 17:46
#7
Clogmia albipunctata (correct spelling) is a container-habitat breeder, which has taken to life around man with brio. It is probably tropical in origin (although no-one knows where its epicentre is) and is present in many more countries than Fauna Europaea records. About the only country I am certain that it is absent from is Great Britain. Current thinking (mine included) would not place either
rothschildi or
tristis in
Clogmia, although they do breed in rot-holes (seemingly exclusively) which
albipunctata probably will also. But toilets are commoner...
Posted by Eddy Clerx on 13-10-2008 23:24
#8
As I understand, the position of the wings could be of importance for determination. Therefor this frontview (underexposed-sorry)
Posted by Eddy Clerx on 13-10-2008 23:35
#9
and this for Louis..
Edited by Eddy Clerx on 13-10-2008 23:35
Posted by Louis Boumans on 14-10-2008 00:35
#10
Nice pictures again!
Posted by Eddy Clerx on 19-10-2008 21:28
#11
This flatwing I spottet on an leaf near forrestcreek. The nearby field was fresch manured. I couldn't take a proper picture (didn't carry a good lens-sorry) and I wasn't able to catch it but I think it is the same spec.
Posted by Xespok on 20-10-2008 07:55
#12
Eddy, I cannot confirm that your species is C. albipunctata. But it is certainly within Telmatoscopini/Pericomini.