Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera resting on a butterfly. ID please.

Posted by nomad on 18-05-2016 11:46
#1
Hello. Please excuse my ignorance but what is this resting on a Green Hairstreak butterfly. Is it a small Diptera species or an small black ichneumon wasp species. The image was taken in England on Salisbury Plain, biotope chalk grassland.

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Edited by nomad on 18-05-2016 12:14

Posted by Tony Irwin on 18-05-2016 12:20
#2
It's a black fungus gnat (Sciaridae) - tricky from specimens, usually impossible to identify from photos.

Posted by nomad on 18-05-2016 12:29
#3
Hi Tony. Many thanks for the ID. The Gnat was only there for a second!!.