Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dasiops cf latifrons, Lonchaeidae, Hungary, April 2007
Posted by Xespok on 06-05-2007 11:37
#1
I do not risk to put a family name on this fly.
Edited by Xespok on 14-05-2007 20:34
Posted by Xespok on 06-05-2007 11:38
#2
Another view of the same fly.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-05-2007 21:26
#3
The second photo shows a large ocellar triangle, so I'll suggest Chloropidae.
(I'm going to be
so embarrassed if this turns out to be an ephydrid!! :p)
Edit - Actually, I think it looks more like a small lonchaeid, now.
Edited by Tony Irwin on 06-05-2007 21:29
Posted by Xespok on 06-05-2007 22:25
#4
Actually I considered Ephydridae and Lonchaeidae for this one, but not Chloropidae. Anyone else has an opinion on this one?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2007 22:38
#5
The ocellar triangle appears to be enlarged in the second picture. That would fit with over-all impression of Chloropidae.
Posted by Iain MacGowan on 10-05-2007 11:11
#6
I think I would go for Lonchaeidae - it looks very much like a
Dasiops species - with relativelly small antennal flagellomere, broad frons, silvered parafacials and I think I can just see hairy eyes - basal tarsomeres orange brown are also characteristic as is the wing veination - it is most probably the relatively common
D. latifrons (known from Hungary) which featured on this site recently as a photo of a specimen from Portugal
Posted by Paul Beuk on 10-05-2007 12:24
#7
And it has dark halteres...
Posted by Xespok on 14-05-2007 20:38
#8
Iain, Paul, Tony thx for your help to get an id on this fly.