Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fireplace Ephydridae

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-08-2007 18:41
#1
Mosc reg., 06 Aug, 2mm

Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-08-2007 18:44
#2
Scatophila species - looks like a female. Not easy! :p

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-08-2007 18:49
#3
Thank you Tony.
It helps?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-08-2007 20:27
#4
I've just understood that it is 2 different flies from 2 different genuses:@

Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-08-2007 23:36
#5
Yep.
The collected flies are Limnellia - I think stenhammari, but this is not a British species. The Scatophila are distinguished by the costa only extending to R3+4, not to vein M. There are a few species with this Limnellia-like thoracic pattern.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 07-08-2007 09:26
#6
Thank you Tony!