Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chionea, lutescens?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 21-10-2005 22:39
#1
Around Moscow, night temp -5, midday - may be +2.
Some Diptera!
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0907-1.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-10-2005 22:47
#2
Looks like Chionea, indeed. A Noptera rather than Diptera. Smile

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 21-10-2005 23:00
#3
What I can't understand is what for it has "hindwings" whithout forewings?

Posted by Louis Boumans on 23-10-2005 22:26
#4
Nikita, I presume you mean the halteres?
I've never seen such an animal before; just found out that it is a kind of cranefly. Your picture is much better that the other ones I could find on internet.

(see this link),

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 24-10-2005 01:13
#5
Yes Louis, I meaned halteres, I didn't find English word.
For example, in Moscow city there are Culex pipiens without halteres. They fly soundless but like "ivory". So I thought that it prooved that halteres realy used for fly balance. But Chionea without wings and with halteres is contre this explanation.
Nikita

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 31-10-2005 21:35
#6
Nikita, here's another one from Moscow region.
Found among fallen leaves (Quercus).
Pictures were made on Oct.30, 2005, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia.
I'm not sure about number of segments in antennae, but it looks like there's 7 of them, so it might be Ch. lutescens.
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0907-2.jpg
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0907-3.jpg