Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chloropidae : Oscinella ?

Posted by rumsais_blatrix on 15-02-2021 00:28
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I have taken this ~2 mm fly in southern France, at Les Matelles (near Montpellier) in June 2020. I believe it is Oscinella, but it might be difficult to say from those pictures. Additional features are: eyes bare (or maybe with a few erect hairs), pleura bare, post ocellar seta cruciate, ocellar triangle entirely shining and reaching front margin, rest of front dull, postpronotal lobes shinier than scutum, small seta on scutum aligned longitudinally. I have another specimen looking very much similar but darker (legs entirely black, wings brownish).

Posted by rumsais_blatrix on 15-02-2021 00:29
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Head from above

Posted by rumsais_blatrix on 15-02-2021 00:29
#3

Wings

Posted by rumsais_blatrix on 15-02-2021 00:30
#4

Male genitalia. Sorry for the low quality

Posted by rumsais_blatrix on 16-03-2021 16:44
#5

No one inspired by this beautiful small fly? I acknowledge the pictures are not so beautiful ...

Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-03-2021 08:48
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Not many feel the inspriration emannting from Chloropidae... Wink

Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 18-03-2021 11:12
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Oscinella frit (L.) group, Chloropidae. Identification to species is impossible after this photo.