Thread subject: Diptera.info :: please help me to identify this one...
Posted by odile on 17-01-2007 20:42
#1
hello
I took those pictures in my kitchen last saturday. I'm leaving in Mana, a small town in French Guiana,South America, near the cost. What is name ? group ?
Thank you.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 17-01-2007 21:14
#2
i think this belongs to the Tephritidae family... very strange fly, indeed...
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-01-2007 21:18
#3
Hi.
Comme j'aime Guiane! I think that French Guiana is the best place in the world. I visited it twice (unfortunely this time I wasn't entomologist yet:(). But I'm always dreaming to visit it again and again!
As for fly, I think it is Tephritidae, Dacinae. But I'm not expert.
Nikita
Posted by odile on 17-01-2007 21:20
#4
Thank you
very strange indeed, its abdomen looks like a second head.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 17-01-2007 21:29
#5
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
Hi.
Comme j'aime Guiane! I think that French Guiana is the best place in the world. I visited it twice (unfortunely this time I wasn't entomologist yet:(). But I'm always dreaming to visit it again and again!
As for fly, I think it is Tephritidae, Dacinae. But I'm not expert.
Nikita
j'adore Guiane Fran?aise. :) But I never went there. :) lol
there was an annular eclipse in last September... but unfortunately, the airplane prices are not cheap. :(((
all members of diptera.info should have the right to receive a free ticket to French Guiana. :D:D why not? :)
Posted by odile on 17-01-2007 21:55
#6
Yes, you will be welcome here :) There is so much to do to ID...
Fruit fly seems a good name, and for the family, Dacinae, i will research more information on the web.
Thank you for All
Odile
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 17-01-2007 22:59
#7
odile wrote:
Yes, you will be welcome here :) There is so much to do to ID...
Fruit fly seems a good name, and for the family, Dacinae, i will research more information on the web.
Thank you for All
Odile
so you have a great chance to show us the beauties of French Guiana! Please consider to photograph all you can. :) not just dipters (spiders, wasp, ants, etc etc:)
Thank you! :)
Jorge
Posted by John Smit on 17-01-2007 23:17
#8
Hi All,
I don't think this is a Tephritid. The vein Sc, in the pterostigma, is not abruptly bent upwards, characteristically in 90 degrees. In this picture you can just make out that is bent more gently towards the costa.
Therefore this must be something like Platystomatidae of Ulidiidae, preferably Platystomatidae for the seemingly lacking of the costal break and it looks like the ocellar bristels are lacking as well.
But I must say I am not familiar with the fauna.
Cheers,
John
Posted by Eric Fisher on 18-01-2007 03:11
#9
Odile,
This fly is a member of the family Richardiidae, which is a close relative of the Tephritidae, Ulidiidae, etc. They family is mainly found in the American tropics. Unfortunately, I can't tell you even which genus it may be -- as I am away from all my main references. Hopefully, I (or someone else) will send you more information soon.
Eric
Posted by Eric Fisher on 18-01-2007 19:26
#10
Odile,
I have my reference material now. This fly is Coilometopia trimaculata (Fabricius) - Richardiidae; the species is widespread in northern S. America. The head and wing are illustrated in "Genera Insectorum" 113, by Hendel, 1911. One striking characteristic of this species can just be seen in your photos - a longitudinal black band down the middle of the yellow scutellum (the rest of the thorax being yellow also).
Eric
Posted by odile on 18-01-2007 23:32
#11
Hello Eric
Thank you so much , and thanks to all of you .
Last few days, I spent lot of time searching on the web, information about this funny fly .
I don't know yet a lot about diptera, but I will go on take pictures and learn more and more.
All the best
odile
Posted by crex on 19-01-2007 10:41
#12
Interesting looking fly. Thanx for showing it. I'm hoping to see more photos from French Guiana!