Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very small fly with big head
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2006 04:17
#1
Hallo, allerseits!
This tiny (1.5-2 mm) fly also visited the light yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Does it belong to the Pipunculidae? Thanks!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-10-2006 08:42
#2
Platypezidae, I think.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2006 20:53
#3
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
Platypezidae, I think.
Ah, thanks, that family did not come into my mind. I was not happy with
Pipunculidae, and the fly did not have Nematocera antennae like a male Simulid, but I did not know which other family it could be.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2006 21:38
#4
Hello, again!
Juergen Peters wrote:
with Pipunculidae, and the fly did not have Nematocera antennae like a male Simulid
Here is another one from yesterday with filamentary antennae. Maybe this is a male
Simulium sp.?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 22-10-2006 22:37
#5
Hi J?rgen
I think your first picture is a simuliid as well. The radial veins show well in contrast to the very faint other veins. I think in Platypezidae the median and cubital veins would be visible. As for the antennae, I suspect this male is holding them back over its eyes, which they sometimes do. Simuliids regularly come to light, and I don't think this is something that platypezids do.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-10-2006 00:27
#6
Hello, Tony!
Tony Irwin wrote:
I think your first picture is a simuliid as well.
Thanks! In any case this is a very astonishing Diptera - even more so for a Nematocera.