Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sinai. Chloropidae?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-02-2006 20:31
#1
On horse exctements, 2,5 mm
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1208-1.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-02-2006 22:23
#2
Reminds me of Tethinidae or something similar.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-02-2006 20:36
#3
Thank you Paul.
I meet one more that fly.
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1208-2.jpg

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 16-03-2006 14:33
#4
ID by Marina Krivosheina as Hecamede maritima, Ephydridae.

Posted by Xespok on 17-03-2006 09:40
#5
Wow, one of the earlier mysteries solved. We had some discussion about this fly earlier. This fly was also observed on the shore in Japan!

Furthermore there is only one species of Hecamede described in Japan.

So my image is likely to show: Hecamede albicans (Meigen, 1830)!

Xespok
Edited by Xespok on 17-03-2006 09:41

Posted by Tony Irwin on 28-11-2006 11:48
#6
Hi Xespok
Checking up on Hecamede distribution, it seems that the only species in Japan is H. granifera, not H. albicans, so your mystery is re-solved! Smile

Posted by crex on 28-11-2006 12:19
#7
Tony Irwin wrote:
Hi Xespok
Checking up on Hecamede distribution, it seems that the only species in Japan is H. granifera, not H. albicans, so your mystery is re-solved! Smile


Actually I think that is a synonym ...

Posted by Tony Irwin on 28-11-2006 12:54
#8
Hecamede granifera and H. albicans are often listed as synonyms in the form :
H.granifera (= H.albicans of authors)
meaning that H. granifera has been misidentified as H. albicans by various authors, e.g. both in Hawaii and Japan. However the species are quite distinct. Wayne Mathis revised the genus in 1993 and figured the genitalia. There are other chaetotaxy characters which can be used to separate the species.

Posted by Xespok on 28-11-2006 13:30
#9
Thx, I noted the change on my web site.