Thread subject: Diptera.info :: British Columbia fly on seaweed, what family?
Posted by
Stephen on 04-12-2010 11:08
#1
In Vancouver on the beach, British Columbia, Canada, 5 July 2009. This fly was walking over seaweed and sea shells. Can someone tell me the family?
Posted by
Stephen on 04-12-2010 11:11
#2
Detail of the head.
#3
very possibly Anthomyiidae.
#4
Fucellia apicalis - note darkened tip of wing to which the name refers
#5
No one has picked this up. I did not receive a reply from the author.
#6
Should be in the Gallery!
Posted by
Stephen on 14-01-2012 17:05
#7
Sorry for the delay, thank-you, I am moving this to the Gallery!
Posted by
Stephen on 14-01-2012 17:06
#8
Sorry for the delay, thank-you, I am submitting this for the Gallery!
#9
Stephen, I hope you'll add this to BugGuide.net as well.
#10
I have not found any record of
Fucellia apicalis in North America. Huckett (1965) listed
Fucellia pictipennis from northern Canada with similar wing marking.
Apicalis was described from China in 1908 and
pictipennis from Greenland in 1907. Is
apicalis the correct name for Pacific populations previously misidentified as
pictipennis?
Posted by
Stephen on 05-11-2012 14:24
#11
John, well, no one has chimed in on this. The Stone catalog of North American diptera does not list apicalis, and you're right, the range of pictipennis comes near: Alaska, Yukon, NWT. The photo of F. pictipennis at BOLD seems a bit different. Maybe safest just to say Fucellia sp. unless you have some literature on the genus. Thanks for pointing this out, I will check to make sure my pics in the diptera.info gallery and BG are okay on this.