Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 08-10-2007 12:00
#1
Hi
* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10 - last weekend
* size - 7 mm (medium fly)
* habitat - woodland
* substrate - leaf of Ficus carica
There are green metallic Lonchaeidae around as well. Interesting the black colour of the halter.
EDIT---> Title changed from "Lonchaeidae - Lonchaea sp. on Ficus carica" to "Lonchaeidae - Dasiops latifrons"
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-10-2007 12:02
Posted by Iain MacGowan on 10-10-2007 11:28
#3
Jorge
with partly yellow tarsomeres, short antennal flagellomere and strong setulae on the genae this is
Dasiops latifrons a common species in southern Europe. the other species you mentioned in yur e-mail,
Lonchaea aristella is now called
Silba virescens and is one of the very few European Lonchaeidae to have a row of long hairs on the arista ......... Iain
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-10-2007 12:05
#4
thanks, Iain. I will show the photos of possible Silba more later.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-10-2007 18:10
#5
no... it is a more bluish Dasiops.. :( Arista is bare. :(