Thread subject: Diptera.info :: lauxaniidae for ID please

Posted by PeterD on 05-10-2010 21:37
#1

Could anyone please help me with this ID?

www.imageinuk.com/Other/Query-Support-Files/A056668/1035194338_HuqdE-M.jpg
Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...qdE-XL.jpg

Thank you

Posted by rvanderweele on 09-10-2010 22:17
#2

Sorry, there are too few details. You have no more dorsal photo?

Posted by PeterD on 11-10-2010 06:30
#3

rvanderweele wrote:
Sorry, there are too few details. You have no more dorsal photo?


Thank you for your reply and I apologise for my late response. I am so far behind that it frightens me:o

I do have another image of this pair below. I did try for a face but they flew off:@

www.imageinuk.com/Other/Query-Support-Files/A056669/1042534805_5tkTr-M.jpg
Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...kTr-XL.jpg

These are uncropped images so cropping will not be a problem if that helps.

Thanks again

Posted by rvanderweele on 11-10-2010 07:53
#4

I am not 100% sure, but I think I see they have only 1 sternopl. bristle. In this case it is M. platycephala.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-10-2010 09:50
#5

I think the top image (enlarged version) shows two sternopleurals...

Posted by PeterD on 11-10-2010 10:12
#6

Paul Beuk wrote:
I think the top image (enlarged version) shows two sternopleurals...

Thank you both, I have now produced a close cropped verion of image 1

www.imageinuk.com/Other/Query-Support-Files/Crop-056668/1035194338_HuqdE-M-1.jpg
http://www.imagei...E-XL-1.jpg

Does this help?

Posted by rvanderweele on 11-10-2010 10:13
#7

It is funny that you say so, since after looking at the first photo after the first posting I believed it as well. Yet, if you look at photo nr 2 it actually looks like 1 bristle. Any way, as indicated, I was not very sure. The photo's do not show enough good details.

Posted by Mark-uk on 12-10-2010 02:21
#8

personally I'm more inclined towards Meiosimyza laeta/mihalyii though not certain from these pictures alone.

Posted by PeterD on 12-10-2010 07:01
#9

Thank you ruud and Mark:)

I think the safest bet would be to settle for Meiosimyza sp. It is not easy to identify from photos and sometimes it is not posible to get the right detail to help assist ID, at the time of shooting.

Posted by rvanderweele on 12-10-2010 08:04
#10

Laeta/mihalyii? Why do you think so? I do not agree. As far as I can see both antennae and palp are yellow. Mihalyii has at least part of the 3rd segment of the antenna and palp blackish.
Laeta has yellow antennae and palp, but is a very small fly, I think much smaller than the ones on the photo.

Posted by katerina dvorakova on 17-10-2010 20:44
#11

Hi,
Meiosimyza rorida withouth doubt! The top image shows two stpl, The second shows only one, but it is optical illusion because of visual angle.
Katka

Posted by PeterD on 17-10-2010 20:55
#12

Katerina Dvorakova wrote:
Hi,
Meiosimyza rorida withouth doubt! The top image shows two stpl, The second shows only one, but it is optical illusion because of visual angle.
Katka


Thank you ruud and Katerina:)
I had given up on an ID for this pair and thanks Katerina for your very positive ID:D