Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Limoniidae

Posted by Cecile on 08-11-2006 16:41
#1
I miss documentation to identify this Limoniidae correctly.
Thanks in advance for your help!
(19/04/2006, France near Lyon, observed in a ditch along a road, size :10 mm)

Posted by Robert Nash on 08-11-2006 17:39
#2
Perhaps not far from Epiphragma. But we will have to wait for Chen Young or someone else who likes thin flies with five legsWink
Robert

Posted by Xespok on 08-11-2006 18:34
#3
Looks more like a Limnophila sp to me. But let us wait for Chen.

Posted by kitenet on 08-11-2006 20:27
#4
Well, I am enjoying all these tipulids Smile!

This looks very similar to my specimens of Limnophila (Limnophila) schranki Oosterbroek 1992 (= L. punctata (Schrank 1781)), but according to Alan Stubbs' draft key to British Limnophilinae there is at least one other similar species on the continent: Limnophila (Limnophila) arnoudi Theowald 1971, which Stubbs splits on genitalic characters.

Martin
Edited by kitenet on 08-11-2006 20:28

Posted by Cecile on 10-11-2006 13:34
#5
Robert Nash wrote:
....or someone else who likes thin flies with five legsWink
Smile

Thanks to you all.
If I understood well, we shall stay at Limnophila sp.Wink