Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small metallic fly, zigzag wing veins..
Posted by nick upton on 11-05-2010 23:57
#1
I have no idea what family this small fly belongs to. The wing veins look odd to my untrained eyes. Can anyone help identify it at least to family?
c 5mm Wiltshire southwest UK 11.5.10
Posted by nick upton on 11-05-2010 23:58
#2
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Posted by nick upton on 11-05-2010 23:58
#3
Head view:
Posted by pwalter on 12-05-2010 00:03
#4
The most common species of this family are not metallic,
howe
ver they have quite the same anatomy :)
Posted by nick upton on 12-05-2010 00:05
#5
OK, thanks, but WHICH family??!
Posted by Steve Pelikan on 12-05-2010 01:32
#6
NickU wrote:
OK, thanks, but WHICH family??!
I'm guessing Walter meant family Syrphidae (Hoverfly family).
Posted by tim worfolk on 12-05-2010 06:33
#7
Eumerus, almost certainly
strigatus.
Tim
Posted by pwalter on 12-05-2010 09:18
#8
NickU wrote:
OK, thanks, but WHICH family??!
Check the red letters :)
Regards, Walter
Posted by nick upton on 12-05-2010 12:02
#9
OK, thanks Walter.
How
very clever... I must get better at noticing ea
sy mo
rphological a
ids to identification... I should also know by now that any fly I'm not sure of is usually a hoverfly... and thanks Tim for narrowing it to Eumerus, it looks just right for that, though maybe a microscope would be needed to be sure of the species. If strigatus is very common, though, that's probably right!