Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A fly on birch bark

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 21-05-2006 23:13
#1
May 21, 2005.
Size 5-6mm.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-05-2006 00:45
#2
Hi Black.
Wellcome in "Club of Cluisiidae photografers" (there was 2 other members - Ben Hamers and me).
Clusiodes pictipes or Clusiodes apicalis.
Nikita

Posted by Iain MacGowan on 22-05-2006 09:18
#3
Dear Clusidae enthusiasts - nice to see these photographs of this interesting group of saproxylic Diptera - I have often bred C. apicalis from decaying birch logs - the larvae and puparia are deep in the soft wood - but so far have not come across C. pictipes

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 22-05-2006 10:30
#4
Nikita, Iain: many thanks for your comments. Now I think I could have guessed the family checking the recent posts if I paid more attention...