Thread subject: Diptera.info :: perhaps Sepsidae from a caw pad

Posted by mwkozlowski on 05-08-2023 09:20
#1
Central Poland, July this year. Quite small, any chance fot id?

Posted by mwkozlowski on 05-08-2023 10:05
#2
Just tearned fom a comprehensive pdf book

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369998930_Cow_patty_critters_An_introduction_to_the_ecology_biology_and_identification_of_insects_in_cattle_dung_on_Canadian_pastures

that this should be Copromyza sp. from Sphaeroceridae

Posted by John Carr on 05-08-2023 10:18
#3
Not Sphaeroceridae. Possibly Saltella.

Posted by daveb21 on 05-08-2023 10:19
#4
Morning, this in not Sphaeroceridae, the basitarsis on the hind leg would be short and wide in that Family.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-08-2023 15:17
#5
John Carr wrote:
Not Sphaeroceridae. Possibly Saltella.
Yes, S. sphondylii