Thread subject: Diptera.info :: milichiidae, little black preditors?
Posted by uwe on 19-10-2008 11:10
#1
this family is new to me, am i wrong?
uwe
Posted by Jan Willem on 19-10-2008 12:14
#2
I think you are wrong:|. These specimens, at least the ones on picture two and three, look like calyptrates to me. But there are several people on this forum who can give a better judgement.
Edited by Jan Willem on 19-10-2008 12:15
Posted by Gordon on 19-10-2008 15:08
#3
I agree with Jan, but that doesn't mean much as I know less than him. We had a thread about a month back in which a small, black, shiny predatory fly was IDed as
Coenosia atra or something like that, I think they said it was distinctive, recognisable, so maybe it is the same.
Have a look at http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=16166;)
Gordon
Edited by Gordon on 19-10-2008 15:19
Posted by uwe on 19-10-2008 20:07
#4
thank you, even i am stil unsfhure about the family
uwe
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-10-2008 20:11
#5
I'd say Muscidae- Maybe an Hydrotaea sp.
Posted by Xespok on 20-10-2008 08:07
#6
I'd say 1. no idea, could be an acalyptrate, pic too indisctinct. 2. Could be Lonchaeidae, but can not exclude a Muscid, again poor pic quality 3. I think a male Fannia.
Posted by Iain MacGowan on 21-10-2008 15:03
#7
I agree that top right photo is Lonchaeidae, the broad, blue/black thorax is distinctive. This is not the first time there have been photographs of Lonchaeids feeding on dead flies on the forum - there was a pic of one feeding on a Syrphid a few months ago - they obviously have a taste for their own kind! ....... Iain
Posted by Jan Willem on 22-10-2008 07:55
#8
I didn't know Lonchaeidae show behaviour like that.