Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sciomyzidae species?

Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 10-07-2007 20:29
#1
I saw this rather small (5 mm) fly in Amstelveen, Holland, this afternoon. Its built is like that of Sciomyzidae. Is it in that family? Can anything more specific be said about its ID?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-07-2007 20:51
#2
Sciomyzidae it is.
Pherbellia cinerella

Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 10-07-2007 21:34
#3
Thanks again Nikita. I saw that you went all the way to Turkey to see this fly - which is virtually in my back yard! Grin Are the colour differences geographic in nature?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-07-2007 22:21
#4
It is also in my back yard in MoscowGrin
Easy to distinguish by long mid-frontal stripe, darkened coastal margin, absence of prescutular ac...
Nikita