Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ephydrid - Notiphila (Dichaeta) caudata

Posted by bradbarnd on 22-12-2011 09:05
#1

Can genus be told from these photos? Notiphila perhaps?

Posting for Tom Murray
Massachusetts, USA
November 6, 2011
4mm, found on the snow in a damp field.

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Edited by bradbarnd on 22-12-2011 19:27

Posted by Tony Irwin on 22-12-2011 16:38
#2

Notiphila (Dichaeta) caudata - some consider Dichaeta a full genus, some consider it a subgenus of Notiphila. (As far as I can see it's a female, lacking the characteristic abdominal spines of the male.)

Edited by Tony Irwin on 22-12-2011 16:41

Posted by bradbarnd on 22-12-2011 19:26
#3

Thanks Tony!