Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Empidoidea

Posted by Ralph Sipple on 28-01-2008 05:45
#1
Hi,

I couldn`t decide whether this is a hybotid or a empidid fly.
Could you help me please?

Found in yesterday in my appartment in Ehingen.
Length: 3,8mm

Thank you
Ralph
Edited by Ralph Sipple on 28-01-2008 05:50

Posted by Ralph Sipple on 28-01-2008 05:47
#2
I thought there is a precoxal-bridge (Empididae), but I can?t see any bristles at first antennal segment (Hybotidae)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 28-01-2008 07:59
#3
Tachypeza nubila, female. As far as I can tell the prosternum looks like that of Hybotidae:
www.diptera.info/diptera/figures/hybotida/hygross1.gif.

Posted by Ralph Sipple on 28-01-2008 13:37
#4
Hi Paul,

thank you for species-ID and the explaining graphic!

Ralph