Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera of China -25

Posted by loepa on 25-06-2007 15:23
#1

SW-China
about 7-8mm
June 23,2007

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 25-06-2007 15:30
#2

Lauxaniidae, Homoneura sp.
Nikita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-06-2007 15:44
#3

Hmm, could well be another genus. Have a larger image?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 25-06-2007 16:11
#4

Paul, I wanted to sent reply as cf.Homoneura or 98%Homoneura, but afterwards I dicided that Homoneura is better for several reasons:
1. Really 98% in Oriental region
2. I collected a lot of Homoneura sp. looking exactly as this one
3. The answer Homoneura in Oriental region is almost equal to Lauxaniidae sp.
Weiwei,
to be sure, check fore femora, in apical 1/3 you have to find row of short black posteroventral spines clearly visible on yellow femora. If there are spines - Homoneura.
Nikita

Posted by loepa on 25-06-2007 17:00
#5

Nikita,
I will check the specimen tomorrow.

Paul,
The larger image:

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 25-06-2007 18:55
#6

This fly from Thailand is Homoneura ;)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-06-2007 18:57
#7

What about the costal spinules continuing till the apex of vein M1+2? That is the character we use to separate Homoneura from the other genera in Western Europe... Which they appear to do in the second picture, by the way, so I think Homoneura should be okay. And the posteroventral setae are visible in the second picture, too

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 25-06-2007 19:09
#8

The fly from Thailand was collected and verified both for f1 pv spines and costal spinules continuing till the apex of vein M1+2, as Homoneura.
China fly looks rather similar enought to be from same genus, doesn't it?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-06-2007 19:16
#9

See my reply above. ;)

Posted by loepa on 26-06-2007 10:11
#10

Nikita,
I have checked the specimen, i think what you said is right. Thank you very much!
Weiwei

Posted by loepa on 28-06-2007 02:03
#11

B)

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 28-06-2007 11:29
#12

Weiwei,
to be sure, check fore femora, in apical 1/3 you have to find row of short black posteroventral spines clearly visible on yellow femora. If there are spines - Homoneura.

I'm sorry, I wrote porteroventral instead of anteroventral. The setae on your image are not what we need. Anteroventral side, apical 1/3, very short and dence row.
Nikita

Posted by loepa on 28-06-2007 16:15
#13

sorry

Posted by Kahis on 28-06-2007 16:23
#14

Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
Weiwei,
to be sure, check fore femora, in apical 1/3 you have to find row of short black posteroventral spines clearly visible on yellow femora. If there are spines - Homoneura.

I'm sorry, I wrote porteroventral instead of anteroventral. The setae on your image are not what we need. Anteroventral side, apical 1/3, very short and dence row.


This isn't a sure-fire way to identify Homoneura (at least as far as I know) as a genus. Some Meiosimyza (ie. rorida in Europe) have such spinules.

I still agree with Nikita, it's most probably a Homoneura.

Posted by loepa on 29-06-2007 10:33
#15

thanks

Posted by loepa on 01-07-2007 11:53
#16

B)