Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Three 4-5 mm flies
Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-05-2007 20:47
#1
Hello!
On these 3 flies from yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany) I don't dare to put even a family name on (the yellow one perhaps Lauxaniidae?). Can somebody help me? Thanks!
No #1 on a Leucanthemum flower at the forest:
No #2, a gray one:
No #3, gray and yellow, was the smallest, max. 4 mm. Sorry, only bad pic:
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-05-2007 20:58
#2
I think:
1. Pallopteridae
2. Lauxaniidae
3. Agromyzidae
Posted by Kahis on 14-05-2007 21:03
#3
The last one is a
Phytomyza sensu lato (Agromyzidae). Nikita is probably right on n. 1, but both are unfamiliar species to me. No. 2 leaves me totally baffled :)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-05-2007 21:27
#4
Hello, Nikita and Kahis!
Many thanks!
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
1. Pallopteridae
I had taken that family into account, too, but did not find a species with such characteristic wing pattern.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-05-2007 07:47
#5
The first two are both Lauxaniidae, and I even think that both are
Minettia. The second one may be
Minettia rivosa (if that is still the current name). I need to check for the top one.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-05-2007 19:05
#6
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
The first two are both Lauxaniidae, and I even think that both are Minettia. The second one may be Minettia rivosa (if that is still the current name).
Thanks! According to my "Entomofauna Germanica"
Minettia rivosa is a valid taxon.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-05-2007 20:04
#7
Yhere has been some species juggling after that one was published. ;)