Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Empis sp

Posted by Chris Lewis on 28-03-2007 08:34
#1
Foulness, Essex UK
18/3/07
6mm
Can anyone identify this smallish Empid?

Posted by Chris Lewis on 28-03-2007 08:35
#2
Second picture

Posted by Paul Beuk on 28-03-2007 08:49
#3
Have got a better top view?

Posted by Chris Lewis on 28-03-2007 13:27
#4
This is the best I've got.
I've taken some more and will send when processed (but its a bit shrivelled up now)

Posted by Chris Lewis on 30-03-2007 10:08
#5
OK this is the best I can get of the dorsum
Is it any help?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-03-2007 11:19
#6
I think that clinches it. E. nuntia. It was my earlier suspicion but the collection date is extremely early, as Collin recorded it as a very common species from Britain occurring between 28 April and 10 July. I realise that that may have been stretched already in recent years, but this is very early.