Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Anthomyiidae?? Female with Bubble.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-10-2009 13:04
#1
Came across this fly blowing a bubble on my greenhouse. As I took the first photo, it got a fright with the flash, and dropped the bubble onto the surface. Pic 1 top/bottom images. It then sucked in the bubble and cleaned up the area where the bubble had landed and then started blowing again, by this time being used to the flash going off on my camera Pic 2.
Is this one ID'able? Size <4mm ish.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-10-2009 13:05
#2
Pic.2
Posted by AM van Erkelens on 08-10-2009 21:36
#3
What a pretty perception.:)
Greetings Alie
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-10-2009 21:44
#4
WTF is a pretty perception ? You wouldn't be related to Joke by some odd chance, who I have sacked on two occasions. :D Trying to keep it in the family huh.....
Regards Roger
Posted by AM van Erkelens on 08-10-2009 21:54
#5
I can not help it, but I am her sister ;):D
Greetings Alie
Posted by Roger Thomason on 09-10-2009 01:42
#6
Oh no.:o..not ANOTHER one to give me grief, come on I'm not a well man. Don't suppose you know anything about Antho's? If you do, can you pass on some of your knowledge to Joke, if only out of kindness/sympathy...:P
Greeting (literally) Roger :|
Posted by javanerkelens on 09-10-2009 15:43
#7
My sister is "funshopping", so i will answer for her...:D
As you know....female of Anthomyiidae is difficult..so not impossible, but i will give it a try....only because your name is Roger:
I think it is a Delia sp.
I will explane why i think it is a Delia sp. (otherwise Nikita get mad on me)
Hind tibia with a high pd on t3
No coloring in the legs and palpes, antennae,thorax and abdomen.
I think i can see a curved pv apical spur on fore tibia
Lower calypter not visible and upper one with some fringles
I don't dare to go further for a species level.
( if I'm right at all on Delia...:o)
Your former employee
Joke
Edited by javanerkelens on 09-10-2009 15:45
Posted by Roger Thomason on 09-10-2009 20:02
#8
1. Funshopping..:o..There is no such thing.
2. What if I changed my name to Hector??
3. Nikita is in Moscow, how much more mad can he get?
4. To a moron like me this all LOOKS plausible.
5. Do like those FRINGLES, get me every time. :P
6. Bottling out, huh.
7. That's why you are an ex-employee
8. Great first name, Psychic parents?
9. Even if this is not a (F)
Delia sp. I am going to label it as such. Thanks for the time spent on it Joke :D
Hector.