Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny dark blue fly

Posted by Juergen Peters on 30-04-2005 15:29
#1
Hello!

I'm quite sure one of you identied this dark blue fly some time ago in another forum, but I can't find it anymore. The photograph was taken this week in Ostwestfalen/Germany at a wood's edge. Thank you in advance!

insektenfotos.de/ento/2804/Blue_fly.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-04-2005 16:31
#2
You may be right that we already have seen this one in other forums but there also is a similar one in this forum. You specimen a probably species of Lonchaea. The other one is here.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 30-04-2005 17:21
#3
Hello, Paul!

Paul Beuk wrote:
You may be right that we already have seen this one in other forums but there also is a similar one in this forum. You specimen a probably species of Lonchaea. The other one is here.


Many thanks!


Posted by Iain MacGowan on 03-05-2005 09:52
#4
Juergen

The photograph is of a female Lonchaeid, given the time of year it is probably not Setisquamalonchaea fumosa as in the previously posted photograph but a Lonchaea species - one of the group with all black tarsomeres which includes the common Lonchaea chorea - they really need looking at under a microscope to identify them to species. ......... Iain

Posted by Juergen Peters on 03-05-2005 17:13
#5
Hello!

Iain MacGowan wrote:
Juergen

The photograph is of a female Lonchaeid, given the time of year it is probably not Setisquamalonchaea fumosa as in the previously posted photograph but a Lonchaea species - one of the group with all black tarsomeres which includes the common Lonchaea chorea - they really need looking at under a microscope to identify them to species. ......... Iain


Also thanks to you!