Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heleomyzidae: Eccoptomera? (24.06.09) --> E. pallescens
Posted by Juergen Peters on 28-06-2009 21:14
#1
Hello!
I guess this 5 mm fly from the light in our garden (again...) is a Heleomyzid (northwest Germany).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 28-06-2009 22:45
Posted by Andrzej on 28-06-2009 22:40
#2
two preapicals on second tibia !
So
E. pallescens :D
Edited by Andrzej on 28-06-2009 22:41
Posted by Juergen Peters on 28-06-2009 22:44
#3
Hello, Andrzej!
Andrzej wrote:
two preapicals on second tibia !
So E. pallescens :D
Nice, an ID to the species with this bad photo! :D Thanks a lot!
Edited by Juergen Peters on 28-06-2009 22:45
Posted by KWQ on 11-07-2009 06:00
#4
This thread seems useful for me too, may I ask an additional question on Eccoptomera (females)?
I caught one such specimen in Ab: Turku (Finland) 22.6. 2009, and the remarkable thing in it was its colour: totally red-orange. I suspected
E. pallescens, but this photo reveals that at least in the above case the thorax is dark.
Yet it also has two dorsal preapicals on the 2nd tibia (as Andrzej highlighted), so is there colour variation or sexual dimorphism in this species? My keys (Bei-Bienko, Collin) are verbally very scanty with these female heleomyzids...
Posted by Andrzej on 11-07-2009 19:26
#5
E. pallescens has the is not totally red-orange !.
With all probability it is another species ! you caught :).
How many strong dorsolateral bristles on third femur are seen ?