Thread subject: Diptera.info :: colorful from Sciomyzidae
Posted by mwkozlowski on 22-10-2007 18:27
#1
for my it is Sciomyzidae. Bad picture but the fly very characteristic, never seen before. On water lilly leaf, June 2006, ner Warsaw, Poland. Possible ID? Thanks!
Posted by Kahis on 22-10-2007 19:19
#2
:o
You have not hand-painted this fly, have you? ;)
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-10-2007 19:21
#3
Can't understand who is it. At least, not Sciomyzidae...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-10-2007 19:38
#4
this was photoshoped. :D
I'm very curious about this one.
Mystery...
Posted by mwkozlowski on 22-10-2007 20:44
#5
this picture was NOT photoshoped at all, and took it not at Loch Ness but in Poland, Central Europe, little lake near Warsaw. This was so called "security shot" from a distance before I started to aaproach the fly closer, but, as it happens, it escaped imediately, and I never saw it again.....
Edited by mwkozlowski on 22-10-2007 20:45
Posted by conopid on 22-10-2007 23:25
#6
You should always catch the first specimen you see and only then should you photograph any others you see. :(
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 23-10-2007 08:27
#7
last year I found a very crazy fly on window. I hadn't the camera when I saw that fly, and I never found it again. :( it was an awesome fly I never saw anymore an habitus like it!
Posted by Kahis on 23-10-2007 09:14
#8
The head is very ephydrid-like.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-10-2007 14:24
#9
Not one that I recognise! :(
Posted by David Gibbs on 23-10-2007 14:56
#10
What about
Hydromyza livens (Fabricius, 1794) - Scathophagidae
Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-10-2007 17:14
#11
Agreed - I kept thinking Scathophagidae, but couldn't remember which one would fit! :@
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 23-10-2007 17:15
#12
Tony Irwin wrote:
Agreed - I kept thinking Scathophagidae, but couldn't remember which one would fit! :@
like me, Tony!!! It was on my tongue the name! :D
The colour is really unusual for a scathophagid fly...
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 23-10-2007 17:17
Posted by mwkozlowski on 24-10-2007 08:00
#14
Could be that males of this specias are more painted than females. There is a recent article about odd behaviors of Hydromyza livens males on waterlilly leaves by Ken Preston-Mafham but full version of this articles cots 50 EURO (rubbery!)
Posted by Susan R Walter on 24-10-2007 12:39
#15
I think you might mean 'robbery' :D or were you planning to buy it with a bouncing cheque?:D (Just teasing you;) )