Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mating tiny flies from Canary Islands - 2

Posted by Isidro on 15-02-2008 09:59
#1
16th January 2008. Uga, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Habitat: gardens, human constructions, enclosures with animals (cows, horses, sheeps, pigs, exotic birds...) Size: about 3 mm (female), 2 mm (male). Very common in the zone. Sorry by the poor quality of the pictures.

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Can be identified?
Thanks.

Posted by crex on 15-02-2008 10:18
#2
Those hairy heads usually means Phoridae, but I might be wrong.

Posted by Kahis on 15-02-2008 10:34
#3
Megaselia (Phoridae)

Posted by Isidro on 15-02-2008 12:24
#4
Thanks to both!

Posted by Andre on 15-02-2008 13:44
#5
Megaselia have a very peculiar mating habit, if I remember well, with individuals bulging out a kind of colorful membrane in the abdomen.

Posted by Ben Hamers on 16-02-2008 10:37
#6
Andre wrote:
Megaselia have a very peculiar mating habit, if I remember well, with individuals bulging out a kind of colorful membrane in the abdomen.


This Gymnophora-couple shows something like that.

Ben
Edited by Ben Hamers on 21-05-2012 19:09

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-02-2008 10:49
#7
similar to everted glands in Lauxaniidae??