Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platypalpus sp.?

Posted by lynkos on 30-09-2006 07:59
#1
Not a great foto I'm afraid as it didn't give me a second chance, but would this be a Platypalpus? About 3/4 mm long, photographed yesterday in the undergrowth of a holm oak wood near Rome, Italy.

www.naturamediterraneo.eu/Public/data4/lynkos/Platypalpus_sp_CFX906-C46F.jpg_200693084625_Platypalpus_sp_CFX906-C46F.jpg

Thanks, Sarah.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-09-2006 08:48
#2
Not just 'could be', it is! :D

Posted by lynkos on 30-09-2006 10:27
#3
Well, every now and then it just has to be right, statistically speaking! Sarah.