Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Meromyza pratorum ♀?

Posted by Elena Regina on 04-09-2021 01:43
#1
Lazio, 2021-VIII, TBL 3 mm

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Posted by Xespok on 04-09-2021 10:16
#2
Not sure if in Meromyza you can go to species level at all in females. Most males also require genitalia. THis seems to be a very difficult genus which probably would need revision using molecular tools. But I may be wrong, and some species may be characteristic.

Posted by Xespok on 04-09-2021 15:12
#3
I only know the Fauna Hungariae key by Agnes Delyne Draskovits and Laszlo Papp. This will not be able to resolve the ID of females.

Posted by Elena Regina on 04-09-2021 19:29
#4
Nartshuk & Fedoseeva 2011 did not help too much as well Sad

Among diagnostic characters though, those tarsi and wing vein angles towards costal margin... Cool