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LordV	#1 Posted on 14-08-2006 20:40
Member Location: Posts: 671 Joined: 06.09.05	Haven't spotted this one before. About 5mm body length, sitting on a rhododendron leaf. Taken today South Coast UK Thanks Brian V.


Dmitry Gavryushin	#2 Posted on 14-08-2006 20:49
Member Location: Posts: 3303 Joined: 17.10.05	Maybe Drosophilidae - Scaptomyza? Please check the latest additions to the Gallery.


LordV	#3 Posted on 14-08-2006 20:56
Member Location: Posts: 671 Joined: 06.09.05	Thanks Black- does look similar to the pic of Scaptomyza pallida. Brian V.


Nikita Vikhrev	#4 Posted on 14-08-2006 21:20
Member Location: Posts: 9193 Joined: 24.05.05	May be it is Scaptomyza, but I don't think it is S. pallida at least. S. pallida hasn't black spots on wings and has 2 row ac. Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Tony Irwin	#5 Posted on 15-08-2006 00:01
Member Location: Posts: 7168 Joined: 19.11.04	This looks like Palloptera ustulata - see gallery picture http://www.dipter...oto_id=125. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin


Paul Beuk	#6 Posted on 15-08-2006 07:40
Super Administrator Location: Posts: 19208 Joined: 11.05.04	Indeed, it is. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


LordV	#7 Posted on 15-08-2006 08:00
Member Location: Posts: 671 Joined: 06.09.05	Thanks all Brian V.


David Gibbs	#8 Posted on 15-08-2006 11:20
Member Location: Posts: 833 Joined: 17.06.06	or it could be Palloptera anderssoni Rotheray & MacGowan, 1999, southern specimens in UK have dark smudge on wing tip. only reliable character is aedeagus


Tony Irwin	#9 Posted on 15-08-2006 12:55
Member Location: Posts: 7168 Joined: 19.11.04	And this is a female, so the only way to identify her may be to introduce a reliably-named live male and see what happens! Edited by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 12:56 Tony ---------- Tony Irwin


LordV	#10 Posted on 16-08-2006 07:33
Member Location: Posts: 671 Joined: 06.09.05	Thanks again . I used to have a pet fly called Rodney- would that do Brian V.

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