Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lauxaniidae, July 15, 2007

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 17-07-2007 18:16
#1

Ozhigovo station, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region. Size around 2.5 mm.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 01-11-2007 18:05
#2

Well, I'll try myself: black spinules reaching the apex of R4+5 so Homoneura; wings transparent, body yellow, pubescense of the arista much shorter than 3rd antennal segment's width, transverse veins not darkened, 1+2 dc, so H. consobrina.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-11-2007 19:17
#3

Hello, Black!

Sorry, I can't ID that fly, but I would like to say: WOW!!! :D You're always taking phantastic photos!

Posted by David Gibbs on 01-11-2007 20:12
#4

looks rather like Sapromyza basalis Zetterstedt, 1847 to me.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 01-11-2007 21:13
#5

Many thanks J?rgen and David.
Well David I suppose you're right, it seems I took posthumeral setae for prestutural dc (and was wrong about the range of spinules on C - should have a look at the specimen in addition to pictures, sorry).

Posted by Kahis on 01-11-2007 21:26
#6

Definitely near Sapromyza basalis, but I don't recall seeing such a brown pattern on basalis. Perhaps it is more variable than I have experienced. Worth a check, I'd say.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 01-11-2007 21:45
#7

Thanks Jere - it's quite common in late summer to autumn in shady forests together with all those bigger orange-yellow Sapromyza with or without spots on abdomen.