Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heleomyzidae: 4 pictures

Posted by John Bratton on 04-01-2012 12:21
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I collected this indoors (kitchen window) on 28 December 2011, Winteringham, eastern England, SE926223. It keys to Tephrochlaena halterata but I'm not certain that is correct. Gorodkov (1988) says the body is grey, which clearly doesn't apply to the abdomen of this specimen. Does anyone recognise it, please?

It has two strong bristles at the bottom of the postoculars in the picture, but the other side of the head has only one.

The house is about half a mile from the Humber estuary, but quite high up the estuary, so I'm not sure it would count as coastal, which is where halterata is supposed to be found.

John Bratton