Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heleomyzidae? ID help needed
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 15-02-2019 11:30
#1
Can anyone help with an ID please? Photographed on 14-2-2019 in a rural garden in Leicestershire, UK.
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 15-02-2019 11:34
#2
Sorry they're poor photos.
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 15-02-2019 11:34
#3
Another view.
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 15-02-2019 11:35
#4
Another view.
Posted by Ectemnius on 16-02-2019 14:01
#5
Hi Barbara,
With this habitus and an entirely yellow stigma, 90% this is Tephrochlamys rufuventris.
Kind regards,
Ectemnius
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 16-02-2019 19:33
#6
Thanks! That's what I thought it looked like!
Posted by andrewsi on 16-02-2019 19:50
#7
The small bristle on the anterior of mid femur is visible in 1st pic, so T. rufiventris looks right to me, too.
Posted by Barbara Cooper on 16-02-2019 23:03
#8
Thanks!