Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny grey and black fly on yellow flower

Posted by Oryctes on 27-08-2019 16:36
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Hello,
I am back to ask Nikita Vikhrev, if possible, another question about this little fly... In your kind and interesting answer, you wrote it was "probably A. monodactyla". It is not easy to find photos and descriptions of this species. Looking etymologically the words, I wondered what the term "monodactyla" could indicate. Could it be the single claw we can see on the fore tarse of the insect (detail of a photo already here) ?
www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos238/big/11%2008%2019%20LDH%2058%20detail.jpg
Oryctes : France : Villeneuve-d'Ascq : 59650 : 11/08/2019
Altitude : NR - Taille : non mesurée
Réf. : 238811

Thanking you in advance...
Dominique