Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Which Anthomyiidae? Phorbia sp.?

Posted by Walther Gritsch on 04-05-2009 13:24
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Hi Forum

In spite of a good look at this little fellows private parts the species eludes me.

I should think that the long hockey stick-shaped surstyli was enough to determine it, but so far I have been unsuccessful.

A couple of other features: No pv apical on t3, and scutellum bare beneath apart from a few hairs at the apex, prealar about as long a posterior ntp.

Body length about 4.5 mm.

Specimen was swept on a meadow on the outskirts of deciduous forest near Copenhagen. The species was numerous in the grass.
Date: May 2. 2009.

Cheers,

Walther

Edited by Walther Gritsch on 07-05-2009 11:59