Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Helina impuncta or depuncta? --> Helina sp.

Posted by eklans on 16-10-2020 15:05
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Hi, following Mike Hackstons key from 2019 (adapted from d'Assis Fonseca, 1968) one significant difference between these 2 species are the presutural achrosticals:
H. impuncta has "a pair of conspicuously strong presutural acrostichal bristles" while depuncta has "at most one or more pairs of stronger hairs".
I see no strong presutural achrostical bristles, so it should be H. depuncta (if we only have to choose between depuncta and impuncta).

Greetings, Eric