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!