Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Simulidae ?
Posted by LordV on 03-10-2007 19:31
#1
Is this a black biting fly ? Pic taken today South coast UK body length 1.6mm (I thought it was a tiny parasitoid wasp)
Thanks
Brian V.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 19:34
#2
wwow!! Brian, this not seems to be a Simuliidae! I never saw a head like this one!! And the arista is very long! :| wow!
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 19:40
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 19:38
#3
to see it bigger:
http://www.flickr...477&size=o
great photo, Brian!!
I'm very. very curious about this one! It has such unusual eyes!!! It must be a new family! :D Or it is a very unusual simuliid. :S
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 19:39
Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-10-2007 19:43
#4
Stilpon. Need to check which one, though.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 19:47
#5
what an unusual Hybotidae!!! :|
Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-10-2007 07:11
#6
Most likely
S. graminum.