Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pipunculidae, Chalarus

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 15-08-2007 12:41
#1
August 14, 2007, Ozhigovo station, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region. Size 2.5 mm.
I'm almost sure it's not a Platypezidae, but what is it then? Maybe Atelestidae or (less likely) Opetiidae?

[Title changed from Unknown to Pipunculidae, Chalarus]
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 15-08-2007 13:52

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-08-2007 12:46
#2
Pipunculidae, genus Chalarus, quite a disaster if you want an identification.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 15-08-2007 12:51
#3
Many thanks Paul (I could have guessed myself... Wink)

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 15-08-2007 12:57
#4
Just in case:

Jervis, M., 1992. - A taxonomic revision of the pipunculid genus Chalarus Walker, with particular reference to the European fauna. - Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 105: 243-352

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-08-2007 13:15
#5
I am familiar with that one. Not the easiest to work with...

Posted by David Gibbs on 15-08-2007 14:07
#6
Black wrote:
Just in case:

Jervis, M., 1992. - A taxonomic revision of the pipunculid genus Chalarus Walker, with particular reference to the European fauna. - Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 105: 243-352


the specimen looks like a male, many males are yet to be associated with their females so Jervis does not key all species of this sex

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 16-08-2007 06:52
#7
The key to the world genera of Pipunculidae:
Skevington, J. H., and Yeates, D. K. (2001). Phylogenetic classification of Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae). Systematic Entomology. 26(4): 421-452. (http://www.canaco...rylini.pdf)