Thread subject: Diptera.info :: winter fly 1

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-10-2005 08:44
#1
Night temp in Moscow region fall enought to freeze completly my pond.
But to my grate estonishment Diptera are still active after midday. Even to get "model release" isn't easy!
7-9mm.
Heleomyzidae?
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0909-1.jpg

Posted by Kahis on 22-10-2005 08:58
#2
Heleomyzidae for sure. Since there are only three postsutural dorsocentral setae this one is not Suillia.



Jere

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-10-2005 12:22
#3
The answer I hoped - new Heleomyzidae.
Thank you Jere.

Posted by Andrzej on 25-03-2006 19:37
#4
If two katepisternal bristles (=sternopleural) are present that is a member of genus Schroederella End. Possibly Schr. iners (Meigen)
Andrzej:p