Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Siberian Acroceridae

Posted by Oleg Kosterin on 08-11-2014 15:02
#1

On 30 of June 2008 when collecting insects, including flies, for my friend Nikita Vikhrev, at Lake Solenoe, a salt lake in southern suburbs of the city of Omsk, West Siberia, Russia (54o53' N 43o21' E), I was sruck by a strange fly which I collected by sweeping from young reed. At home I looked at this site and found out this was Acroceridae. The specimen is at Zoological Museum of Moscow State University.

Edited by Oleg Kosterin on 08-11-2014 15:53

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 08-11-2014 15:07
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one more view
Russia, West Siberia, suburbs of Omsk, saltish lake at Vorovskiy str., 54.89N, 73.35E, 30.VI 2008, O. Kosterin

Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 08-11-2014 15:08

Posted by Oleg Kosterin on 08-11-2014 15:17
#3

better with the original label
(but the lake was really salt rather than brackish)

Posted by Zeegers on 08-11-2014 19:22
#4

An Ogcodes.

Difficult genus

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