Thread subject: Diptera.info :: ID unknown

Posted by mariak on 27-01-2005 02:22
#1

tiny black fly. About 2-3mm
Harris county, Texas
From a Euphorbia plant in coastal prairie.

Any help welcomed

thanks

Maria
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0171-1.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 27-01-2005 06:46
#2

Its is in the dance flies. In North America the hybotid and empid groups generally are still treated as a single family but this is one of the hybotids. I think it is a species of the Drapetis/Crossopalpus complex. Characters used to separate the groups in the Nearctic are different from those used in the Palaearctic. I will try to figure it out. Wink