Thread subject: Diptera.info :: fly on Rhododendron bush
Posted by Toby on 17-09-2009 15:45
#1
would like an ID please. SW London, woodland park.
Posted by Stephen R on 17-09-2009 15:56
#2
How about
Platypalpus in Hybotidae? perhaps
minutus? (This is a guess - I know nothing!)
Posted by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2009 16:40
#3
Stephen R wrote:
How about Platypalpus in Hybotidae? perhaps minutus? (This is a guess - I know nothing!)
True. TRUE..:D.PHORIDAE...Scuttle fly. Or Sphaeroceridae...I always mix them up.
Try and EDIT/DELETE that one Stephen .:P.
Regards Roger...:D
EDIT; Change heading to attract the attention of Brian Brown or other Phoridae experts. Assuming I'm right of course. Never hear the end of it, otherwise.....Sphaeroceridae...aghhhhh
Bit of a mixed message...hmmm.
Been embarrassed before...1 more isn't going to hurt...:D
Edited by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2009 17:26
Posted by Stephen R on 17-09-2009 17:27
#4
I'll take that one on the chin! Actually I don't feel TOO bad about being Completely Wrong, knowing that I am following in the footsteps of the Masters ;). (I know where they keep the archives, Roger!)
Posted by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2009 17:41
#5
There have been a few :D..damn those archives.
Sclaterscrae :|.
Posted by Jan Willem on 18-09-2009 08:43
#6
Phoridae is correct. You're way beyond the guessing stage Roger ;)
Posted by Roger Thomason on 18-09-2009 08:55
#7
I guess you wouldn't want to bet a lot of money on it though JW. ;)
Roger....I guess B)
Well at least I don't have to hide under the stairs for a week, with embarrassment.......again.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 18-09-2009 09:05
Posted by bbrown on 06-11-2009 06:16
#8
Peromitra sp. (yes, Phoridae).
Posted by Roger Thomason on 06-11-2009 07:08
#9
Thank you Brian....not for myself, but good to see this thread re-appearing again...Happy days on the old Quote Button eh Stephen :D:D:P
Sclaterscrae Senior :P
Posted by Stephen R on 06-11-2009 11:52
#10
Just when I thought it was safe to come out from under the stairs:@
Posted by phil withers on 07-11-2009 22:47
#11
I'm pretty certain that, barring a name change somewhere, Peromitra is not a British genus.
Posted by bbrown on 08-11-2009 05:57
#12
Phil: Species of Peromitra were previously part of Borophaga. I have given evidence (3 synapomorphic characters) that Peromitra species are more closely related to Stichillus than to Borophaga, and therefore raised them in rank to a genus. My colleague Henry Disney doesn't agree, although he has not refuted my three characters. Now we have molecular support as well (still unpublished), so there is overwhelming evidence from both morphology and DNA sequences.
Brian
Posted by phil withers on 08-11-2009 11:04
#13
Thanks; nicely concise reply. Which of the European species (ex
Borophaga) will this apply to ?
Posted by bbrown on 10-11-2009 03:28
#14
P. agilis, P. carinifrons, P. cephalotes, P. erythrocera, and, especially the common P. incrassata are the European ones.
Brian