Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae? Sciomycidae?
Posted by Renate on 27-05-2010 20:13
#1
Hi,
I would have thought that even someone like me could identify this pretty little fly.
But it looks like I need your help yet again.
Hamburg, Germany, mainly in reeds, 27-May 2010
Thanks & Rgds
Edited by Renate on 27-05-2010 20:15
Posted by Renate on 27-05-2010 20:15
#2
lateral view
Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-05-2010 20:29
#3
Ulidiidae;
Melieria sp. similar to
picta in the Gallery
http://www.dipter...to_id=4669
don't know if it is the same though.
Roger
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 27-05-2010 20:37
#4
I'd say Melieria cf. omissa (Ulidiidae)
Posted by Renate on 27-05-2010 21:59
#5
Thanks to both of you.
No wonder I couldn't find it if I'm too daft even to find the correcty family ;)
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 27-05-2010 23:45
#6
No, you ain't. I know at least two very best experts in the Tephritoidea who confessed they started their scientific career from attempts to ID sciomyzids or ulidiids with the key to Tephritidae species. The third was I myself. B)
Posted by Sundew on 27-05-2010 23:58
#7
Very nice pics - wished I'd find it here, too!