Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera bifurcata
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:30
#1
Hi
* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.05.19
* size - 3 mm - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - farmland and near river..
* substrate - tall grass
It was a long time I don?t know which family it can belongs. ;) (or it is a new genus that is tricky...)
EDIT ---> Title changed from "unknown fly" to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera sp." and then to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera cf. bifurcata"
and finally to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera bifurcata"
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2007 20:08
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:33
#2
other view
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:34
#3
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:34
#4
and the last..
Posted by Kahis on 19-05-2007 22:35
#5
Lonchoptera (Lonchopteridae)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:38
#6
new family for me. :D
Is it possible to get species level?
Posted by Kahis on 19-05-2007 22:45
#7
Probably
L. bifurcata, but it's been a while since I last identified some of these flies.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:47
#8
Are they common when they occur? Or is it rare to spot them?
I learned that L. bifurcata is parthenogenetic! :|
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-05-2007 23:07
#9
ID confirmed.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 19-05-2007 23:08
#10
Rather common and especialy in places as you discribed - grass in wet place.
Your is female and according my key exactly L. bifurcata.
Nikita
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 23:11
#11
thanks! :) It is a very beautiful fly! Among Conopidae, Miltogramminae flies they are such a beauty as well!