Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small, slender flies on Heracleum: Chloropidae? (July-27, 2010) --> Saltella sphondylii (Sepsidae

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:43
#1

...or what else? Only 2-3 mm, on meadow near forest, northwest Germany.

Edited by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 22:24

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:44
#2

A little bit bigger and lighter.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:44
#3

With an even smaller Sepsis sp.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:45
#4

Different species?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:45
#5

A couple.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 21:46
#6

With a tiny metallic wasp.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 31-07-2010 21:47
#7

Hello Juergen, this is Saltella sphondylii (Sepsidae).

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-07-2010 22:23
#8

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
this is Saltella sphondylii (Sepsidae).


Many thanks, Stephane! Now that you write Sepsidae, I wonder how I could have been so blind (habitus etc.)... :S