Posted by Rafael Estevez on 24-08-2007 20:52
#1
I classified this small fly (about 5 mm) as a Dolichopus, am I correct??
Photo taken at Las Chanas (Zamora) late september 2005 sheltered under the shade of a plum tree trunk.-
Cultivated/fruit fields.
Thanks for confirmation.
Rafael
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-08-2007 21:00
#5
Jorge was faster ;)
But I think that 5mm, yellow legs, Spain, Sept, fruit tree -
M.flavipes
but let's wait Igor:p
Posted by Igor Grichanov on 25-08-2007 09:34
#6
Femora dark, face seems shining, CuA apical part very short, dc unequal. M. diadema is more probable.
Medetera diadema (Linnaeus, 1767) [Musca] (Haliday, in: Walker, Stainton & Wilkinson, 1851: Ins.brit. 1(1): 138) *
=Musca diadema Linnaeus, 1767: Syst.Nat. (Ed.12) 1(2): 982 ** Type locality: Europe. Palaearctic: Abkhazia; Algeria, Austria; Belarus: Minsk, Grodno; Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece incl. Crete, North Aegean; Hungary, Israel; Italy, N Kazakhstan; Middle Asia, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania; Russia: Krasnodar, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Rostov, Voronezh, Orenburg; E Russia: Altai; Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey; Ukraine: Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa, Carpathia; Yugoslavia; Nearctic: Washington, California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island * Medetera