Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sciaridae, Zygoneura
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-10-2008 14:57
#1
28 September 2008, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia. I repeatedly come to
Catocha latipes but it's obviously not the case, at least wing looks quite different in Yukawa (1971), so I took a wrong turn somewhere...
Subject changed from Cecidomyiidae, Lestremiinae to Sciaridae, Zygoneura.
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-10-2008 19:12
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-10-2008 14:58
#2
Male genitalia.
Posted by xylo on 14-10-2008 17:22
#3
Hi Black,
no doubt: this is a species of
Zygoneura (Diptera: Sciaridae). Their antennae resembling that of gall midges and their apical spurs of tibiae are very short, but have a closer look on the wing veins and complexity of genital....
cheers,
xylo
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-10-2008 19:10
#4
Many thanks xylo - so it's a
Sciaridae...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 14-10-2008 19:11
#5
Most characteristic for
Zygoneura: bell-shaped fork in vein M. You can even see it in the top picture.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-10-2008 19:13
#6
Thanks again Paul.
Posted by phil withers on 14-10-2008 23:22
#7
Looking at the genitalia preparations, it is clear that the first is
Zygoneura sciarina. The second, however, is not a
Zygoneura: it looks much more like a
Xylosciara. Check the venation character mentioned above.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 16-10-2008 08:22
#8
Well Phil I thought it's the same specimen - will check later.
Posted by xylo on 16-10-2008 11:37
#9
Well, a detailed view of ventral inner margin of gonocoxites (base and apical end) would be interesting: there should be a group of more prominent setae. The excavation of apical fourth/third of stylus supports
Zygoneura. And there are some more species described by Mamaev and Mohrig exclusively from Russia.....
Let's wait what Black will report (Hopefully it is on one slide/in one vial)....
so long,
xylo