Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera bifurcata

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:30
#1
Hi

* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.05.19
* size - 3 mm - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - farmland and near river..
* substrate - tall grass


It was a long time I don?t know which family it can belongs. Wink (or it is a new genus that is tricky...)


EDIT ---> Title changed from "unknown fly" to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera sp." and then to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera cf. bifurcata"
and finally to "Lonchopteridae - Lonchoptera bifurcata"
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2007 19:08

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:33
#2
other view

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:34
#3
another...

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:34
#4
and the last..

Posted by Kahis on 19-05-2007 21:35
#5
Lonchoptera (Lonchopteridae)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:38
#6
new family for me. Grin

Is it possible to get species level?

Posted by Kahis on 19-05-2007 21:45
#7
Probably L. bifurcata, but it's been a while since I last identified some of these flies.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 21:47
#8
Are they common when they occur? Or is it rare to spot them?

I learned that L. bifurcata is parthenogenetic! Frown

Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-05-2007 22:07
#9
ID confirmed.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 19-05-2007 22:08
#10
Rather common and especialy in places as you discribed - grass in wet place.
Your is female and according my key exactly L. bifurcata.
Nikita

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-05-2007 22:11
#11
thanks! Smile It is a very beautiful fly! Among Conopidae, Miltogramminae flies they are such a beauty as well!