Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Empid or Hybotidae maybe?

Posted by fleabag on 23-05-2007 16:49
#1
Hi,
Please could anyone help me to id this little fly?sorry not a great shot,i made a mess of the lighting.
Maybe 4mm ish? Found yesterday evening in rural sussex uk.
thanks,
Noel

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 23-05-2007 17:06
#2
I have never seen this fly.
My guess - Opetia nigra, Opetiidae, rather rare fly.
Nikita

Posted by Kahis on 23-05-2007 18:54
#3
Sorry, Nikita, but you are dead wrong Smile Opetia as not as slender - think Chrysotus or Crossopalpus. I think it is a hybotid, but cannot see which one.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 23-05-2007 19:10
#4
I'd go for a Trichina (Hybotidae).

Posted by igor on 23-05-2007 19:18
#5
Trichina elongata Haliday, 1833

Posted by fleabag on 24-05-2007 00:03
#6
thanksSmile