Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly on dock plant

Posted by Alan Watson Featherstone on 08-02-2008 17:19
#1
This was taken on 16th May in Glen Moriston in Scotland, at Grid ref. NH 329 145

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 08-02-2008 18:10
#2
Muscidae, maybe a female Mydaea with broadened palpi... No other larger pictures ?

Posted by Alan Watson Featherstone on 08-02-2008 18:21
#3
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Muscidae, maybe a female Mydaea with broadened palpi... No other larger pictures ?


Thanks for your suggestion. I only got the one shot before it flew away! Here's a closer crop of it - I hope this may make it easier to ID.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 08-02-2008 19:13
#4
Actually palpi are not broadened, it's just proboscis.
I have the impression that there is a posterodorsal on hind tibia (Unless it is a mark on the leaf), so I'd say Phaonia sp.
It's the more that I can say, sorry.