Thread subject: Diptera.info :: fly on fungus

Posted by jane bowman on 15-01-2008 20:42
#1
I found this attractive fly on a fungus in the Scottish Highlands at the end of August. Could you identify please.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-01-2008 20:52
#2
It is Trypetoptera punctulata, Sciomyzidae

Posted by jane bowman on 16-01-2008 21:51
#3
Many thanks for this Nikita

Best wishes Jane

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 16-01-2008 22:19
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Bravo, Nikita! Trypetoptera punctulata is the most famous "fruit fly". Bernhard Merz told me once a story which is the same as my own: in the beginning of his tephritid career he tried to determine it as a tephritid species. I have seen dozens and dosens of it in many museums of Europe with the label "Oxyna?" or "Trypetidae?", etc. Grin

Posted by Kahis on 16-01-2008 22:54
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Nosferatumyia wrote:
Bravo, Nikita! Trypetoptera punctulata is the most famous "fruit fly". Bernhard Merz told me once a story which is the same as my own: in the beginning of his tephritid career he tried to determine it as a tephritid species. I have seen dozens and dosens of it in many museums of Europe with the label "Oxyna?" or "Trypetidae?"


Exactly. I just got a small collection of flies to identify, and among the tephritids is a series of this species. From Kaliningrad - not too many diptera records from the region, Fauna Europaea lists just one sciomyzid and no tephritids...