Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Psilidae - Chamaepsila sp. (?) very nice fly.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 15:00
#1
Hi
* locality - Fontelo's garden - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10.13
* size - 6 mm (medium fly)
* habitat - public garden
* substrate - resting on a leaf, very near the ground
Psila ?
it is a female.
EDIT---> Title changed from "Psilidae - Psila sp. (?) very nice fly." to "Psilidae - Oxypsila sp. (?) very nice fly." and then to "Psilidae - Chamaepsila sp. (?) very nice fly."
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 15-10-2007 14:26
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 15:02
#2
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 15:03
#3
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 15:04
#4
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 15:06
#5
last photo.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-10-2007 23:52
#6
Psila sp. ? Am I right? thank you.
Posted by Kahis on 15-10-2007 00:41
#7
Hmm, it looks like no Psilid I have seen. But then again, I have hardly seen them all :) Definitely not
Psila though.
Oxypsila sp. ?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 15-10-2007 00:43
#8
it is nice to see that this fly is putting doubts. :)
I have a male of this one, I think. I will upload the photos very soon.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-10-2007 08:17
#9
In our Dutch key
Oxypsila is keyed out as having no dorsocentral setae, but this one has two prescutellar dc. Following the key I would have to say it is
Chamaepsila but that does not ring right when looking at the
Chamaespsila we have here.
Posted by Jan Willem on 15-10-2007 09:57
#10
Very nice fly indeed. I'm very curious what it will turn out to be!
Jan Willem
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 15-10-2007 16:57
#11
let me know if you want a detailed shot of terminalia... and others. I have almost photos from all angles. But I just can upload the photos on Wednesday.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-10-2007 17:40
#12
this case is getting more and more interesting.
Bernhard Merz told to me : "According to my knowledge and our reference collection it is a species close to "Psila" gracilis Loew. However, there are some differences, in particular in chaetotaxy of the head and in the arrangement of the black stripes on the mesonotum. (...) without checking some crucial characters (fine setulae on thorax, exact distribution of setae, wing shape and venation, more precise study of head shape, and of course of the female terminalia) it is not possible to establish the name, even the genus is not fully clear."
Be tunned. Hopefully I will upload photos more later. :)
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 16-10-2007 17:42
Posted by Heteropteran on 16-10-2016 09:57
#13
Chamaepsila setalba Friedberg & Shatalkin, 2008--> new name for
Chamaepsila gracilis Loew, 1854
Posted by Jocelyn Claude on 28-09-2022 18:51
#14
Hello ! Head with two large, brown lateral occipital spots. Thorax with a brown band from postpronotum to base of halters. =>Chamaepsila longipennis (Séguy, 1936)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 29-09-2022 14:13
#15
Thanks Jocelyn! :)