Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Helcomyza ustulata ?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-09-2007 22:01
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Is this
Helcomyza ustulata ?
Sept. 22 2007.
At seaside, on seaweeds, near Etretat (France).
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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-09-2007 22:02
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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-09-2007 22:03
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Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-09-2007 22:09
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Stephane, it seems you have got new family for Diptera Gallery!
Nikita
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-09-2007 22:26
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Thanks Nikita, a good news.
Since the time I've been learning flies, I hadn't yet explored seasides. Shame upon me !
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-09-2007 22:59
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Awesome fly!!!! New family, indeed: HELCOMYZIDAE! wow! ;)
I must seek for seaweeds! :)
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 22-09-2007 23:02
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-09-2007 23:00
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Since the time I've been learning flies, I hadn't yet explored seasides.
Me too (or only hot seashores). I'm often thinking about several days I spend in Cancal 4 years ago :@ I could collect a hell lot of flies which are rare in Russia...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-09-2007 23:01
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you can find over there Coelopidae, Heterocheilidae! This last has a peculiar head. :S
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-09-2007 23:18
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Well, I was looking for Coelopidae, Helcomyzidae and other typical beach flies. ;)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-09-2007 23:29
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aha! I must go to visit some beaches with lots of seaweeds. :)
Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-09-2007 19:15
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Well done, Stephane - a new family for the gallery, but not Helcomyzidae! :p
This is Coelopidae, probably
Coelopa pilipes.
Helcomyza is not so flattened, is greyer, has a darkened cross-vein and spines on the costa. Keep looking on the seaweed, though - you will find it! ;)
Edited by Tony Irwin on 23-09-2007 19:17
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 23-09-2007 19:34
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Even so, I'm verry happy to have found a Coelopidae ! :):)
I haven't said my last word, I will find Helcomyza !
I submit them to the gallery. ;)
Thanks Tony.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 23-09-2007 20:16
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me too, Stephane. :) Let?s go find Helcomyzidae! :)
I will try to get Coelopidae and that unusual Sepsidae. :) And, who knows... Heterocheilidae.
Great find. ;)
Posted by jhstuke on 24-09-2007 21:13
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I add two photos of Helcomyza ustulata - that could be usefull when identifying maritim Acalyptratae.
Jens-Hermann
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 24-09-2007 21:47
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Thanks Jens-Hermann. Now I know what I have to look for ! And indeed, it's very different from Coelopa ! A Nice species too.
Greetings.