Thread subject: Diptera.info :: On Desmometopa sordidum

Posted by KWQ on 30-09-2009 14:00
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My little inquiry concerns the milichiid D. sordidum (Fallén) if anyone happens to have a surefire reference specimen nearby.

What are the colour of its tarsi? In Bei-Bienko it is claimed that its legs are all dark, but at least in southern Finland all the specimens that are supposed to be that species seem to have at least partly yellow tarsi.

So is there variation here and who is mistaken?