Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lonchaeidae? -> No, Chloropidae -> Hapleginella laevifrons
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 12-03-2013 09:15
#1
Hello!
This 2 mm little fly hatched out from a spruce cone.
Date: 11.04.2013
Location: Stuttgart (Germany)
Is it a Lonchaeidae species?
Regards
Andreas
Edited by Andreas Haselboeck on 04-05-2013 05:42
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 12-03-2013 09:16
#2
Pic 2
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 12-03-2013 09:17
#3
Pic 3
Posted by mossnisse on 12-03-2013 09:39
#4
Chloropidae. Big shining ocellar triangle
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 12-03-2013 14:03
#5
Oops... Yes, Chloropidae looks much better :-)
Maybe a Oscinella species?
Regards
Andreas
Posted by Sara21392 on 24-03-2013 07:38
#6
Maybe a Oscinella species?
Yes!
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 25-03-2013 06:45
#7
Hi Sara,
thank you very much!
Regards
Andreas
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 03-05-2013 21:36
#8
Andreas Haselboeck wrote:
Hello!
This 2 mm little fly hatched out from a spruce cone.
Date: 11.04.2013
Location: Stuttgart (Germany)
Is it a Lonchaeidae species?
Regards
Andreas
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 03-05-2013 21:51
#9
A typical Hapleginella laevifrons (Loew, 1858), Chloropidae, Oscinellinae. Large shining ocellar triangle with a row of interfrontal setulae on the triangle very near to its edge. mesonotum (= scutum) not pubescent (= without pollen/dust). The colour of the halteres is a bit variable, thus, beginners may idetify specimens with black halteres as Lonchaeidae, which all possess black halteres. The species is well known as emerging from cones of pine, spruce, fir and larch trees, but it has not yet exactly been studied which is the prefered larval food, alife or dead insect larvae or the gymnosperm seeds.
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 04-05-2013 05:40
#10
Wow!
Vielen Dank für die Bestimmung!
Liebe Grüße
Andreas