Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Long antenna Trichoceridae

Posted by guenille on 03-01-2010 11:31
#1
In first, I wish you a very happy new year.
Looking for night moths, many diptera comes but difficult to ID :@
No idea of families
Can you help me ?
Thanks
Near Paris, november 20th
Edited by guenille on 03-01-2010 13:08

Posted by Jan Willem on 03-01-2010 13:07
#2
Trichoceridae. Could be Trichocera annulata. Maybe Andrius can tell you more.

Posted by Andrius on 03-01-2010 13:22
#3
This is clearly Trichocera annulata, no doubts - Jan Willem is right ;) And it is one of the most widely distributed winter gnat species in the world, known from Europe, Northern America, even Algeria and Ethiopia, Australia and New Zealand.
Records from France are rather scarce in published literature (or at leas I haven't seen more of them), mostly from the XIX century by Macquart, 1834; Perris, 1847; some later like Keilin, 1912.