Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Odinia cf czernyi
Posted by
crex on 02-09-2007 19:57
#1
Location: Near Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 2007-SEP-02
Habitat: Mushroom on dead Picea abies
Size: 4-5 mm
This small fly was stuck upside down on the mushroom. I wanted to look on it's upside. Not sure if it was damaged before or if I accidentally hurt it when loosening it ... Drosophilidae?
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Edit: Changed subject (Mushroom fly)
Edit: Changed subject (Morpholeria sp?)
Edited by
crex on 05-09-2007 11:19
Posted by
crex on 02-09-2007 19:57
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Posted by
crex on 02-09-2007 19:58
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Posted by
crex on 02-09-2007 19:58
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Drosophilidae?
I don't think so.
I think it is Heleomyzidae, something like Morpholeria...
Nikita
#6
the third photo is funny. Look at thos "lips"
crex you should put lipstick in those "lips".
I'm almost sure
that this is not Drosophilidae.
Posted by
crex on 02-09-2007 20:35
#7
Thank you Nikita!
Interesting to see that the length of the legs are so different. The hind legs are chubby and short, the tibia of middle legs are long ...
#8
Crex! Take it easy with Morpholeria
Heleomyzidae?
is enought!
#9
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
Heleomyzidae?
is enought!
Not quite enough - It's
Odinia (Odiniidae)!
Posted by
crex on 03-09-2007 05:36
#10
Thank you Tony and Nikita!
Posted by
crex on 03-09-2007 06:02
#11
It's a pity mine was damaged. It looks like Ben Hamers
Odinia sp in the gallery ...
#12
As with all Odinids the taxonomy is still in need of some in depth revision but - judging by the fact that it was taken on Picea in Scandinavia and its relatively large size I would hazard a guess that it is
O. czernyi which I have seen numerous examples reared from Picea in Finland and aslo a few from the same tree in Scotland.
Posted by
crex on 05-09-2007 11:18
#13
Thank you for the help Iain!