Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Long Tarsi; What Family?
Posted by Stephen on 24-10-2006 12:18
#1
Long Tarsi on this fly! Length about 4.6. Photographed along a stream near a lake, West Virginia, USA, 11 July 2006. What family?
Thanks for any help!
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-10-2006 13:03
#2
Hi Stephen.
I think it is cf same fly;) as in
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=3909
Place is very much the same too, I think same genus.
Nikita
Posted by Robert Nash on 24-10-2006 13:23
#3
Looks like it:p:p-
Limnophora Ten species in U.S.A.
Robert
Posted by Stephen on 24-10-2006 14:00
#4
Nikita, Robert, Thanks very much for your help with this one.
Nikita, it is nice that although we are thousands of miles apart (forgive my non-metric measurement!) we are seeing nearly the same fly!
Posted by Stephen on 24-10-2006 14:32
#5
The fly shown below was taken high in the mountains, about a 90 minute drive from where I photographed the original fly on this page. The two flies were photographed about a month apart (the fly below on 16 August 2006).
I posted the image below once before and folks here at diptera.info ID'd it to family, Muscidae.
Is it safe to say that both flies on this page, like the one photographed by Nikita, are in genus Limnophora?
Edited by Stephen on 24-10-2006 14:34
Posted by Tony Irwin on 24-10-2006 23:43
#6
Yes, I'd say
Limnophora for this one too.
Posted by Stephen on 24-10-2006 23:52
#7
Thanks, Tony, and thanks again Nikita and Robert!