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Found flapping around in a spiders web, still alive. Must have thought it was its lucky day when I freed it..but no, ended up in the freezer...now in a nice bath of Vodka..sometimes life really sucks!!
Any chance of a name to my newly deceased fly. 2+ mm-ish, and a bummer to photograph even when dead!

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Ischioplepta are a pain in the @ss even when under the microscope so I will not hazard a guess to the species from a photo. Moreover, you have a female here and that does not improve matters at all. Perhaps, if you treat me to some wodka in the future I may have a different view on matters (through the looking glass' ) '.

BTW: You louse flies made it across the big pond quite nicely.

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I don't know anything about Ischioplepta ;) Paul..but I do know about being a pain in the @$$ ;).so I will send you the fly for inspection through your "looking glass" (Sounds a bit Alice in Wonderland-ish). Me the Mad Hatter to your.... (pick a character).



Good...great Homing Pigeon that!! Cheap to run too!!

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It is a female of the species couple vaporariorum/pusilla. Females of these two species cannot be separated (yet) despite the fact that Pitkin gave some characters to do so in his handbook. Later revision has learned that in cases of associated males and females these characters did not hold up. As this is a single female...

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Thanks once again Paul, I.vaporariorum is listed for here, so that's what I'll file it under. Too far off the beaten track up here to be getting a knock on the door in the middle of the night from The Fly Police :S...hopefully!

Regards

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Collect some more and you are bound to get a male eventually. ;)

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You wanna bet..knowing my luck? But yeah, anything for science, and to add to your collection Paul |t