Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Peplomyza discoidea ?
Posted by Eric Steckx on 23-06-2019 19:30
#1
Hello !
Aywaille (Belgium), 23/6/2019, on oak bark.
Obviously no black mark between the antennas (bottom right).
So,
Peplomyza discoidea ? If yes, it could be a new species for Belgium (according to Fauna Europae, but is it updated ?).
Posted by Paul Beuk on 24-06-2019 08:45
#2
I think you are right on all counts.
Posted by Eric Steckx on 24-06-2019 08:57
#3
:D Thank you, Paul !
Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-06-2019 15:47
#4
Lo and behold, not known from the Netherlands I just collected a female from a window in our museum, too!
Posted by John Carr on 26-06-2019 00:22
#5
Paul Beuk wrote:
Lo and behold, not known from the Netherlands I just collected a female from a window in our museum, too!
In 2001 a fly collected from a window of the Canadian National Collection became the type specimen of a new species (
Anthomyia ottawana).
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-06-2019 07:35
#6
The chances for that are somewhat smaller here, at least among most fly families, but we might have a chance in phorids, cecidomyiids and sciarids, I guess.
P. discoidea is just one among a dozen or so species that have their first record (or one of the first records upon publication) from the window in our museum.