Thread subject: Diptera.info :: copulating empids

Posted by raywilson on 26-10-2009 14:08
#1

These were photographed at the edge of a pond in Cheshire, UK at the end of June. Any ideas on which species? E. tessellata perhaps?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-10-2009 14:17
#2

Does not look like Empis (radial fork is missing). Might well be Rhamphomyia crassirostris but I cannot rule out another species. Any other shots?