Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another estuarine muscid

Posted by Rui Andrade on 25-04-2009 16:25
#1

And this muscid was found in the same habitat as the other one. What is it?

location: Vilan Nova de Gaia
date: 23/04/2009

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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-08-2009 15:54
#2

around Neolimnophora ?

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 19-08-2009 19:08
#3

I'd say Coenosia, subgenus Dexiopsis (2 presut dc with firts only 1/3 the second one), and thus it should be Coenosia lacteipennis. I'm not sure at all, I'm guessing.

Posted by Rui Andrade on 19-08-2009 19:43
#4

Stephane, what do you need to be sure?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-08-2009 20:31
#5

lacteipennis... curious name... only Portuguese can understand this.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 19-08-2009 21:22
#6

Stephane, what do you need to be sure?


I'll need more experience or the fly itself to give a definite ID. For the moment it is keyed out as C. lacteipennis without too many doubts (the only Dexiopsis with black femora, only yellow at extreme tip). Description of this species in my documentation match to this one : bluish-grey dusted species, female with 3 dark stripes on scutum and conspicuous spots on tergite 3 and 4, black antennae and palpi, parafacial as wide as flagellomere, upper postocular setuale with a supllementary row behind. However, I don't know this Coenosia, and I could be mistaken or it could exist another similar species in southern Europe...

Edited by Stephane Lebrun on 19-08-2009 21:24

Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-08-2009 21:48
#7

Ok, thank you once more Stephane:)

Edited by Rui Andrade on 23-08-2009 21:49