Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Coenosia/Muscidae?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-07-2006 22:19
#1
July 01, 2006.
Size 3mm.
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-07-2006 22:20

Posted by ChrisR on 03-07-2006 22:29
#2
has it got a subscutellum? Siphona sp.?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-07-2006 22:31
#3
Well Chris, I'd better add some more views (next morning)...

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-07-2006 11:51
#4
Hello Chris,
More views as promised (at last Wink).

Posted by Paul Beuk on 14-07-2006 11:52
#5
My immediate thought, too: Siphona.

Posted by ChrisR on 14-07-2006 12:30
#6
Thanks Dima ... I still can't make up my mind though. It looks a little like Siphona cristata - I can't see median-marginal bristles on T1+2; the vertext seems more orange than the thorax colour; and there seem to be 3 post-sutural dc. But as a genus you won't find many people willing to gibe a 100% identification - even from specimens! Wink

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-07-2006 12:38
#7
Thanks Chris. I think we did our best what we could do without examining specimens.

Posted by Zeegers on 31-07-2006 10:45
#8
The pictures are excellent for such a small fly,
but it is still a Siphona !
DC are 3+3, as rightly noticed by Chris.
the proboscis seems to be short (for a Siphona).
The palpi are quite clubbed.

My guess would be confusa or variata.

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 31-07-2006 11:15
#9
OK thanks a lot Theo