Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown family
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-06-2007 11:35
#1
Hello,
I need some help to ID this little fly. I can't even grasp the family.:(
The fly was not found by me, I have got only this picture.
Any Idea ?
Locality : Pyr?n?es orientales (66) - FRANCE.
Date : May 31 2007
Habitat : dry scrubby environnement, more or less garrigue-like.
Size : approx. 5 mm.
Regards.
Edited by Stephane Lebrun on 10-06-2007 11:38
Posted by Tony Irwin on 10-06-2007 15:35
#2
Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae, somewhere near
Sphenometopia
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-06-2007 20:27
#3
I would never have bet on Sarcophagidae, not even in calyptrate fly.
Thank you for your help Tony.
Posted by Liekele Sijstermans on 11-06-2007 23:48
#4
I would never have bet on Sarcophagidae either.
Just because it is not Sarcophagidae. Indeed not even a calyptrate.
I am convinced it is acalyptrate: Milichia speciosa. We have seen a nice picture before, but this time it is a male.
(reference: Meigen, Abbildungen der europaeischen zweifl?gligen Insecten nach der Natur: CCX 1e).
Liekele
Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-06-2007 07:47
#6
Argh, I though about female
Milichia but could not find any image to match my suspicion, not even a description (did not find/take time to search hard enough for that, I admit).
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 12-06-2007 19:17
#7
Thank you all very much.;)
Greetings.