Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A little fly with curious antenna

Posted by lweit on 31-07-2012 21:46
#1
Hello
Found this fly in NE of France, between Metz and Thionville the 24/07/2012. Length 8 mm.

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Thank for your help

Posted by John Carr on 31-07-2012 22:36
#2
Keroplatidae, probably Keroplatus. The genus name is Greek for "flat horn".

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-08-2012 13:02
#3
Keroplatus it is.

Posted by lweit on 01-08-2012 13:53
#4
Thank you John and Paul
Here the message of Jan Sevcik Ph.D.Department of Biology & Ecology University of Ostrava Chittussiho 10CZ-710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic or Silesian Museum Tyrsova 1CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic a specialist of the Keroplatidae 's species.

"Dear Louis,
it is really Keroplatus, probably K. testaceus, the commonest species of Keroplatus in Europe."

Louis