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Empididae (?) - hind legs with bristle rows
Sundew	#1 Posted on 13-10-2007 17:40
Member Location: Posts: 3890 Joined: 28.07.07	Hi, I do not know where to put this fly. The hind legs have striking comb-like bristle rows, and I hope this character may lead to genus identification. As in most of my threads, I have to apologize for pics too small to show the minutest details. However, I trust in the experts' experience. Thanks, Sundew


Juergen Peters	#2 Posted on 13-10-2007 18:12
Member Location: Posts: 13502 Joined: 11.09.04	Hello! Empis pennipes? http://www.dipter...ad_id=6619 Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=


conopid	#3 Posted on 13-10-2007 18:17
Member Location: Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04	I cannot see if your fly has a long slender proboscis, otherwise it looks somewhat like the Empis pexata in the gallery http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?photo_id=1813 Probably not possible to do from the small photos. Edited by conopid on 13-10-2007 18:18 Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom


Sundew	#4 Posted on 13-10-2007 19:11
Member Location: Posts: 3890 Joined: 28.07.07	Well, the leg bristles point to Empis, but the proboscis does not match! In the gallery, both E. pennipes and E. pexata have remarkably long, slender ones, but in all my photos only a short one is seen! Can it be retractable? Many flies are able to do so, but in this family the probosci look rather stiff. There are gallery photos of Rhamphomyia with a short proboscis, and one species has even similar bristles, but the body colour is different. Please, Empididae experts, help to solve the question... Sundew


Kahis	#5 Posted on 13-10-2007 19:17
Member Location: Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04	Rhamphomyia (Empididae) Kahis


Paul Beuk	#6 Posted on 14-10-2007 08:24
Super Administrator Location: Posts: 19208 Joined: 11.05.04	It would help to have a date with it... Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


Sundew	#7 Posted on 14-10-2007 12:27
Member Location: Posts: 3890 Joined: 28.07.07	Date is: yesterday ! Sundew


Paul Beuk	#8 Posted on 14-10-2007 20:05
Super Administrator Location: Posts: 19208 Joined: 11.05.04	Best chance: Rhamphomyia erythrophthalma: female have slightly broadened and darkened wings. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


Sundew	#9 Posted on 14-10-2007 20:44
Member Location: Posts: 3890 Joined: 28.07.07	Thanks to all for help! If I meet my female fly again around the house I shall tell her what an international team cooperated to find out her name - she will be impressed , at least I am! What would I do without you. Warm regards, Sundew