Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown family: very small, very long arista
Posted by maico on 07-04-2022 18:04
#1
2021.09.20
Sussex, UK
Rough grassland
Suction sample
Posted by maico on 07-04-2022 18:05
#2
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Posted by tristram on 07-04-2022 18:29
#3
Sphaeroceridae
Posted by maico on 07-04-2022 22:34
#4
Thanks!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 08-04-2022 08:20
#5
Probably
Leptocera nigra, female
Posted by maico on 08-04-2022 16:38
#6
Thanks, Paul.
I had a go at trying to identify it using the key in Pitkin's thesis.
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/38136/2/Pitkin-BR-1986-PhD-Thesis.pdf
I get to
Leptocera but I struggle to get to species as I think I am misinterpreting the tibial spines.
Posted by maico on 08-04-2022 16:40
#7
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Posted by maico on 08-04-2022 16:42
#8
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Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-04-2022 18:51
#9
It helps if you can manage to make a phot of the ventral side of the mid tibia