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Posted by Klaas on 17-10-2008 23:24

This one keys out on Heteromyzidae,
but spines at edge of wing rather poor

today on rotten fungus

Posted by Andrzej on 18-10-2008 11:19

Hi,
It is typical Suillia. The small spines on costa are by S. bicolor.
P.S.
I prefer to use the name Heleomyzidae according to my publications info on an application made in the XXth century to the ICZN regarding the family name ( the paper could be downloaded at: http://fossilinsects.net/lib.htm) as follow: Woznica A. 2006. Protoorbellia hoffeinsorum gen. and sp. nov., a new heleomyzid genus and species of the tribe Orbelliini Gorodkov from Baltic amber (Diptera: Heleomyzidae). Annales zoologici 56 (1): 147-151. :|
Regards,
Andrzej

Finally an attachement has been made !

Edited by Andrzej on 18-10-2008 11:25

Posted by Klaas on 18-10-2008 14:45

Thank you Andrzej

I'll collect more information about taxonomics in diptera soon. Before doing so you (or someone else) may be so kind to id two other Heleomyzidae

Suillia flava/affinis?

Posted by Andrzej on 18-10-2008 15:17

Thanks for your info.
Both species belong to Suillia !. (1 + 4 dorsocentrals, 1 orbital and no humeral bristles).
The first one is probably not S. flava (in my opinion the plumosity of arista is too short for me - fortunately is a male, so if you caught the specimen you can verify after terminalia), the second is a female and not for ID from the picture :|.
If you have a better picture (in high resolution) maybe you can verify the mesopleuron - if haired ( probably - the ? picture no 2007-10-21_0008-i shows it ) so could be S. humilis but I am not sure at the moment.
Andrzej

Edited by Andrzej on 18-10-2008 15:20