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Hi,

I was working with my Drosophilidae and found this small nice fly from the indet unit. It has nothing to do with Drosophilidae but how abouth Sphaeroceridae ?
June 26. 2008 Loviisa, Finland.

Jari

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Pseudopomyza atrimana

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Well that's why it looked so strange. This is not only new species but a new family for me :) Thank You Paul.

Jari

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In what habitat did you find it, Jari?

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This is extremely interesting!!! It was only found once in Hungary by Papp. Only 1 specimen! Congratulations!

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Wow, it is something!

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Well I didn't know it is that good. :) We have several specimens in our database. KWQ and Kahis has found this species some years ago. The place is called Harmaakallio field in the middle of pine forest. I have found several better species from that area. There should even be pictures of my malaise trap in the field somewhere in this site.

Jari

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June 20, 2010, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia. 2 males on a freshly broken birch tree. I looked (and have found) for Chymomyza and happened to spot these small flies, they crawled slowly on exposed wood like Leiomyza or something like that. Next day I returned to that tree around 8 p.m. but couldn't find more of these (yet there was still plenty of Chymomyza, 3 spp.)

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Very nice, I also found Chymomyza this year, but on window. Now I know that I should look on freshly cut birch trees. As we had intense flooding, a lot of trees are put down nowadays in the forest to prevent them from accidental falling - maybe it will be an opportunity to find interesting flies :)

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Saw 1 male and 1 female at same location yesterday, a single shot of female (they're not so slow, actually). Conditions (first of all, humidity) change quickly, only a few Chymomyza this time.