Thread subject: Diptera.info :: empidid with broad wings

Posted by Kahis on 15-01-2007 10:12
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Only the female has those weird wings. The male is a perfectly normal Rhamphomyia with narrow, transparent wings.

This species is spreading northwards in Finland. It was first found on the south coast in the 1970s and I have recently found it almost at the arctic circle.