#1
Photographed today at Leerdam, Netherlands. Small fly, appr. 3 mm long. Is this Sphaeroceridae and would it be possible to tell genus or even species from these awkward photographs?
Thank you in advance!
#3
Jan,
your fly (it is Sphaeroceridae without doubts) has on hind busytarsus curved ventral spine. I think this means Sphaerocera curvipes, but I'll be at least as happy as you if somebody confirm this.
Nikita
P.S. I specialy beged Black to ask Dr. Rohacek
#5
The comment from Jindřich Roháček:
...photos from Netherlands are difficult to identify due poor quality and non-visible diagnostic characters; anyway, it is a species of
Copromyzinae, probably Copromyza sp. or Lotophila. It could be Lotophila atra ... because I do not see the ventral spur on hind tibia; however, I am unsure if this spur really is
absent.