Thread subject: Diptera.info :: small grey one: Anthomyia cf. liturata

Posted by Sundew on 19-08-2025 20:16
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Ah - the anal vein, though hardly visible, seems to reach the wing margin, so an Antho indeed... These little guys trick me again and again, this one's habitus looked really muscid-ish to me. - Luckily, Joke van Erkelens' great paper "Anthomyiidae voor Dummies" (https://www.dipte...ummies.pdf) says about Anthomyia liturata: "The only species within the Anthomyiidae that has the transverse veins clearly darkened so is easy to recognise from that". So we got a name at last! Thanks, John.