Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sphaeroceridae. Lotophila atra ?

Posted by John Bratton on 15-11-2017 12:10
#1

Collected 19 August 2016, Carex bed by a small pond in a business park, Bangor, North Wales.

Posted by John Bratton on 15-11-2017 12:12
#2

It keys to this using the Pitkin RES Handbook, but it is based on absence of spurs and spines, never as convincing as presence of structures.

Posted by John Bratton on 15-11-2017 12:13
#3

The specimen is in alcohol. Not as shiny black as some of the photos in the gallery.

Posted by John Bratton on 15-11-2017 12:14
#4

No spur on hind tibia.

Posted by John Bratton on 15-11-2017 12:15
#5

Another view, no spur.