Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very confused
Posted by chirpy on 01-09-2009 21:24
#1
Hello,
I wonder if I could trouble people for some ideas on what this might be:
Large photo available on Flickr here:
http://farm3.stat...50df_o.jpg
I found several of these on the end of a large fallen rotting tree trunk in the middle of a boggy field.
They kept running in and out of the cracks in the wood. It clearly has rudimentary wings and long antennae.
1~2mm (tiny!)
Initial thoughts were that it might be a psocid, but it seems more like a fly to me, which is why I'm posting here.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 01-09-2009 21:34
#2
it could be a Cecidomyiidae
Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-09-2009 21:36
#3
I would imagine some kind of gall midge (Cecidomyiidae). I take it you are from the UK?
Posted by chirpy on 01-09-2009 21:37
#4
Thank you Jorge.
I did look at Cecidomyiidae and wondered.
Do you think that this one is genuinely brachypterous?
Posted by chirpy on 01-09-2009 21:38
#5
Sorry Paul, I'll update my profile. I am in the UK.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-09-2009 21:38
#6
If it ventures into cracks and crevices it may well be.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-09-2009 18:04
#7
Subfamily Lestremiinae, tribe Micromyini has several possible candidates. It might be
Aprionus. You probably did not collect it?
Posted by chirpy on 03-09-2009 08:15
#8
Thank you Paul. I'm afraid I did not collect it. I went back the other day to look for it again but they weren't there.