Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ceratopogonidae (NL) > Palpomyia

Posted by blaauw7 on 07-08-2021 08:02
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5 August, On light, mid Netherlands. Clinohelea unimaculata ?

Gr Dick
Edited by blaauw7 on 09-08-2021 15:22

Posted by blaauw7 on 07-08-2021 08:03
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Posted by John Carr on 07-08-2021 18:49
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Palpomyia

Tribe Heteromyiini normally has modified legs -- swollen fore tarsomere 5 in Clinohelea, for example. Sphaeromiini has bristles under tarsomere 5 of female. Your fly has neither, so Palpomyiini and the crossvein between branches of radius makes it Palpomyia.

Posted by blaauw7 on 09-08-2021 14:37
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Thanks John. I saved the specimen for ID Later

Gr Dick