Thread subject: Diptera.info :: kind of gnat?

Posted by elck on 12-07-2006 15:40
#7

I found the correspondence and it was finaly id-ed as Sphaeromias fasciatus :

John Boorman wrote:
Dear Steve, It looks very like a teneral Sphaeromias fasciatus to me. The colour of the fore and mid femora are not quite right (as expected if it is teneral) and the femoral spines are not visible but the dark mesonotal vittae and the small black spots at the base of the hairs fit in well.