Thread subject: Diptera.info :: picture-winged Drosophila

Posted by Louis Boumans on 05-09-2005 18:45
#1
Is it possible to identify this one from a picture? I am sorry for the poor quality of the picture..
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0689-1.jpg

Posted by Jan Willem on 05-09-2005 20:53
#2
Hi Louis,

This looks like Chymomyza amoena to me. As far as I know that would be the second time this species is found in The Netherlands. Or isn't it from The Netherlands?

See "Jong, H.de & J.W.A. van Zuijlen, 2003. Chymomyza amoena (Diptera: Drosophilidae) new for The Netherlands.? Entomologische Berichten Amsterdam 63(4): 103-104."

Posted by Louis Boumans on 05-09-2005 21:45
#3
Indeed, you actually gave me a reprint of that paper! It's Chymomyza amoena alright. There was a vague trace in my memory about a picture-winged Drosophila, and that's why I collected it from my kitchen. I made large windows in the roof of my kitchen, which since then wiorks as a perfect fly trap!

thanks, Louis