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Hi

* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.04.22
* size - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - woodland, near river
* substrate - tree - acacia?


This is a Platypezidae fly. An albin fly indeed...
Check the checkered pattern in abdomen, the scutum is grey with some iridiscence (lilas, for example), scutellum a little more dark than the scutum, And in torax, look, in LATERAL view, at the white stripe. Moreover, you can see that frontalia is completely white and with just 2 bristles (the other broken). Too bad that this fly was dead when I took the photos. It is one of the most beautiful flies I ever seen with this size.
2 ocellar bristles proclinate; one frontobrital bristle in each side; 2 long and strong outervertical bristles.

I hope you can give me, at least, the species level.


EDIT ---> Title changed from "New Platypezidae" to "Drosophilidae - Leucophenga cf. maculata"
NEW EDIT .---> Confirmed : Leucophenga maculata (and title changed)

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othe view

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another one...

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head view

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Leucophenga sp., Drosophilidae. I'd need to check whether it is maculata or not.

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but something says me that this could not to be Platypezidae... not so hum p thorax as usual.

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LOL. i WROTE about that this could not to be a platypezid and you said a little before that this is a drosophilid fly. so... new platypezid in shoutbox is a liar.

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Leucophenga maculata according to Baechli et al. (Fauna Ent. Scand.-series book, with keys to all European species).

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thanks to both! I found it just because the withish colour of frontalia calls to me - The fly was about 10 cm in relation to the ground. I thought at the first it was a fly that could belongs to the subfamily Miltogramminae, but then when I catched the fly, it was very clear that it would be another fly (not sarcophagid .