Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Flies on a dead dog - Part 9
Posted by Gordon on 01-12-2009 14:18
#1
I caught some of these yesterday, and managed to photograph them today, just, the new ring-flash highly over-exposed everything, or the camera did with the flash. Quite a bit smaller than C. furcata but also with spines along the wing like a small Heleomyzid or a largish Trixoscelidid
Posted by Gordon on 01-12-2009 14:19
#2
I am sorry the photos are not so good - the new flash also seems to have had an effect on the autofocus
Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-12-2009 14:35
#3
Indeed, a heleomyzid for Andrzej
Posted by Andrzej on 01-12-2009 22:16
#4
Neoleria sp. ! I will write more tomorrow because I'm very tired :|
Edited by Andrzej on 01-12-2009 22:16
Posted by Jaakko on 02-12-2009 09:57
#5
Out of curiosity: what is the best literature to id this family? I have tried with Bei-Bienko, but (once again) it does not seem to have all the species on the finnish check-list.
Posted by Andrzej on 02-12-2009 10:28
#6
I'm using original papers of Czerny: 1927: 53a. Helomyzidae, 53b. Trichoscelidae und 53c. Chiromyidae, in: Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgelehrter hrsg. v. Erwin Lindner, Stuttgart and
his monography from 1924: Monographie der Helomyziden. Abhandlung der Zoologischen-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 15(1): 1–166. (but it is originally in German !).
A key to UK Heleomyzidae was made by Collin J.E. in 1943: The British species of Helomyzidae. Ent. Monthly Mag. 79: 234-251 ;)
Posted by Gordon on 02-12-2009 12:42
#7
Neolaria flavicornis is the only member of that genus on my list so fsr - lets hope it is something different. Andrzej - does the above mean you have an interest in Chironomids??????:)
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Gordon
Edited by Gordon on 02-12-2009 12:45
Posted by Andrzej on 02-12-2009 13:48
#8
It's
Neoleria ruficornis B)
Posted by Gordon on 02-12-2009 15:32
#9
Hi Andrzej - There is no
Neoleria ruficornis in Fauna Europeae - only
N. ruficauda,
N. ruficeps or
N. fuscicornis or other names even less similar. Could you tell me the authority please. Also F.E. has a
Morpholeria ruficornis (Meigen, 1830) - perhaps this is it.
And Andrzej - you are the taxonomic specialist named for this group in F.E.:D
Edited by Gordon on 02-12-2009 15:34
Posted by Stephen R on 02-12-2009 15:33
#10
Gordon wrote:
[does the above mean you have an interest in Chironomids??????:)
Gordon
Chiromyidae Gordon, not Chironomidae. :) Fauna Eur. spells them Chyromyidae (another of Robineau-Desvory's excentricities:( )
Stephen.
Edited by Stephen R on 02-12-2009 15:35
Posted by Gordon on 02-12-2009 15:35
#11
Stephen R wrote:
Gordon wrote:
[does the above mean you have an interest in Chironomids??????:)
Gordon
Chiromyidae Gordon, not Chironomidae. :) Fauna Eur. spells them Chyromyidae (another of Robineau-Desvoiry's excentricities:( )
Stephen.
AHHHHHHHHHHH :|
Posted by Andrzej on 02-12-2009 16:02
#12
oops, My Fault.
N. ruficeps :o
Posted by Gordon on 03-12-2009 11:28
#13
Thanks Andrzej
Posted by Gordon on 03-12-2009 12:11
#14
Ijust checked F.E. according to them
Neoleria ruficeps is a new record for Greece ;) as well as the 1,794th fly on my survey list.:D