Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Canadian Tiny Fly

Posted by Tony T on 29-04-2007 18:27
#1
23 April 2007, New Brunswick, Canada. Length: 2.25mm
Really hoping for some decent-sized flies, but only small stuff turning up in my Malaise trapSad
Family? Genus?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 29-04-2007 18:31
#2
Chloropidae.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-04-2007 18:39
#3
... and genus Elachiptera, I think.
Nikita

Posted by Kahis on 29-04-2007 20:13
#4
Definitely Elachiptera. it looks quite like the Palearctic E. tuberculifera (Corti).

Posted by Tony T on 29-04-2007 21:11
#5
Thanks Jorge, Nikita, and Kahis. You folks are a fantastic resource. Stone et al (1965) "Catalog of NA Diptera" list only costata, nigripes, vittata as potentially from my area. I suspect more species have been found here since 1965.