Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phoridae species?
Posted by SandroM on 11-02-2020 14:18
#1
What Phoridae species is this?
Edited by SandroM on 15-02-2020 12:13
Posted by SandroM on 11-02-2020 15:57
#2
They were reared from beech and oak deadwood branches in emergence traps in Basel Switzerland.
Edited by SandroM on 15-02-2020 12:14
Posted by SandroM on 13-02-2020 12:26
#3
Could this 1.8 mm long Phorid be part of the Genus
Metopina ?
Are they mycetophagous, saprophagous or zoopahgous?
Edited by SandroM on 13-02-2020 14:10
Posted by Ectemnius on 13-02-2020 14:13
#4
Hello SandroM,
With such a bad photo the genus is impossible to determine.
Phoridae is a large Diptera family with one of the most diverse life habits. They are phytophagous, zoophagous, mycetophagous, (endo and ecto) parasitic, saprophagous and some more probably...
Kind regards,
Ectemnius
Posted by SandroM on 17-02-2020 13:32
#5
Are these pictures any better?
To deduce perhaps the genus and thus their larval life habitat?
Could they be
Metopina species?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-02-2020 20:29
#6
I do not think
Metopina but if you manage to get a proper picture of the wing venation that can be confirmed.
Posted by SandroM on 18-02-2020 11:38
#7
Okay I tried to make some pictures of the wings. I hope they are good enough.
Posted by SandroM on 18-02-2020 11:40
#8
image two
Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-02-2020 12:24
#9
No sudden bend in the last longitudinal vein, so no
Metopina