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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: New fly in my garden

Posted by LordV on 14-08-2006 20:40

Haven't spotted this one before. About 5mm body length, sitting on a rhododendron leaf. Taken today South Coast UK

Thanks
Brian V.

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Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-08-2006 20:49

Maybe Drosophilidae - Scaptomyza? Please check the latest additions to the Gallery.

Posted by LordV on 14-08-2006 20:56

Thanks Black- does look similar to the pic of Scaptomyza pallida.
Brian V.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-08-2006 21:20

May be it is Scaptomyza, but I don't think it is S. pallida at least.
S. pallida hasn't black spots on wings and has 2 row ac.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 00:01

This looks like Palloptera ustulata - see gallery picture http://www.dipter...oto_id=125.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-08-2006 07:40

Indeed, it is.

Posted by LordV on 15-08-2006 08:00

Thanks all

Brian V.

Posted by David Gibbs on 15-08-2006 11:20

or it could be Palloptera anderssoni Rotheray & MacGowan, 1999, southern specimens in UK have dark smudge on wing tip. only reliable character is aedeagus

Posted by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 12:55

And this is a female, so the only way to identify her may be to introduce a reliably-named live male and see what happens!

Edited by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2006 12:56

Posted by LordV on 16-08-2006 07:33

#10

Thanks again

. I used to have a pet fly called Rodney- would that do

Brian V.