Thread subject: Diptera.info :: tiny fly

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-09-2006 15:10
#1
Hi

taken today, 6th September 2006 in SIlgueiros - viseu.

It is a tiny fly.

ID please. Sorry for real bad quality of photo. Tiny fly... Wink
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 06-09-2006 15:12

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-09-2006 15:33
#2
I think it is Platypalpus, Hybotidae.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-09-2006 15:55
#3
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
I think it is Platypalpus, Hybotidae.



where can I find about Hybotidae biology and their ecology?

Posted by Robert Nash on 06-09-2006 16:35
#4
The diversity of Empididae led to the family being split into 4 families (Hybotidae, Atelestidae, Microphoridae, and Empididae) by the raising of some subfamilies to family level (Chv?la 1983). Pre 1983 info on biology will be therefore in works on Empididae (through the genus or species). Robert

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-09-2006 18:45
#5
It seems that Microphoridae soon will be subfamily in Dolichopodidae and Hybotidae will be dividede into two or more families.
All Hybotidae is predatorsWink