Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phoridae sp

Posted by crex on 06-10-2007 18:45
#1

Location: About 30 km N of Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 2007-OCT-06
Habitat: Trunk of aspen

All Phoridae flies mentioned here seems to be Megaselia sp. I suspect this also is one of them :)

Posted by crex on 06-10-2007 18:46
#2

The head of this monster :)

Posted by Kahis on 06-10-2007 19:16
#3

Not Megaselia, that genus never has strong setae on tibiae 1-2.

My first though was Spiniphora dorsata, but it does not seem to have the namesake short spines on fore tibiae.

Edited by Kahis on 06-10-2007 19:16