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 Drosophilidae - Leucophenga maculata
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 20:55
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Hi * locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL * date - 2007.04.22 * size - 4 mm (small fly) * habitat - woodland, near river * substrate - tree - acacia? This is a Platypezidae fly. An albin fly indeed... Check the checkered pattern in abdomen, the scutum is grey with some iridiscence (lilas, for example), scutellum a little more dark than the scutum, And in torax, look, in LATERAL view, at the white stripe. Moreover, you can see that frontalia is completely white and with just 2 bristles (the other broken). Too bad that this fly was dead when I took the photos. It is one of the most beautiful flies I ever seen with this size.  2 ocellar bristles proclinate; one frontobrital bristle in each side; 2 long and strong outervertical bristles. I hope you can give me, at least, the species level.  EDIT ---> Title changed from "New Platypezidae" to "Drosophilidae - Leucophenga cf. maculata" NEW EDIT .---> Confirmed : Leucophenga maculata (and title changed)
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 20:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 20:57
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another one...
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:00
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head view
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:03
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Leucophenga sp., Drosophilidae. I'd need to check whether it is maculata or not.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 07-05-2007 09:21 Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:06
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
but something says me that this could not to be Platypezidae... not so hum p thorax as usual.  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:08
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Paul Beuk wrote: []Leucophenga[/i] sp., Drosophilidae. I'd need to check whether it is maculata or not. LOL. i WROTE about that this could not to be a platypezid and you said a little before that this is a drosophilid fly. so... new platypezid in shoutbox is a liar.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 22-04-2007 21:14 |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:30
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Leucophenga maculata according to Baechli et al. (Fauna Ent. Scand.-series book, with keys to all European species).
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-04-2007 21:34
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
thanks to both! I found it just because the withish colour of frontalia calls to me -  The fly was about 10 cm in relation to the ground. I thought at the first it was a fly that could belongs to the subfamily Miltogramminae, but then when I catched the fly, it was very clear that it would be another fly (not sarcophagid . |
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