Thread subject: Diptera.info :: colorful from Sciomyzidae
#1
for my it is Sciomyzidae. Bad picture but the fly very characteristic, never seen before. On water lilly leaf, June 2006, ner Warsaw, Poland. Possible ID? Thanks!
Posted by
Kahis on 22-10-2007 19:19
#2
You have not hand-painted this fly, have you?
#3
Can't understand who is it. At least, not Sciomyzidae...
#4
this was photoshoped.
I'm very curious about this one.
Mystery...
#5
this picture was NOT photoshoped at all, and took it not at Loch Ness but in Poland, Central Europe, little lake near Warsaw. This was so called "security shot" from a distance before I started to aaproach the fly closer, but, as it happens, it escaped imediately, and I never saw it again.....
Posted by
conopid on 22-10-2007 23:25
#6
You should always catch the first specimen you see and only then should you photograph any others you see.
#7
last year I found a very crazy fly on window. I hadn't the camera when I saw that fly, and I never found it again.
it was an awesome fly I never saw anymore an habitus like it!
Posted by
Kahis on 23-10-2007 09:14
#8
The head is very ephydrid-like.
#9
Not one that I recognise!
#10
What about
Hydromyza livens (Fabricius, 1794) - Scathophagidae
#11
Agreed - I kept thinking Scathophagidae, but couldn't remember which one would fit!
#12
Tony Irwin wrote:
Agreed - I kept thinking Scathophagidae, but couldn't remember which one would fit!
like me, Tony!!! It was on my tongue the name!
The colour is really unusual for a scathophagid fly...
#14
Could be that males of this specias are more painted than females. There is a recent article about odd behaviors of Hydromyza livens males on waterlilly leaves by Ken Preston-Mafham but full version of this articles cots 50 EURO (rubbery!)
#15
I think you might mean 'robbery'
or were you planning to buy it with a bouncing cheque?
(Just teasing you
)