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 Chloropidae ?
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| evdb |
Posted on 24-04-2013 11:35
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 Member Location: France (Loiret) Posts: 1357 Joined: 05.12.11 |
Hi, Found this small fly (# 2 mm) yesterday in Center of France, on a bamboo lief I think it looks as Elachiptera diastema with its large arista ? evdb attached the following image:  [53.5Kb] Edited by evdb on 24-04-2013 11:38 Eugene |
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| evdb |
Posted on 24-04-2013 11:37
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Member Location: France (Loiret) Posts: 1357 Joined: 05.12.11 |
Another view :
evdb attached the following image:  [61.94Kb] Eugene |
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| Sara21392 |
Posted on 24-04-2013 15:12
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I can't see the characters well as you seen, Is distance between apical bristle of scutellum greater than distance from apical bristle to corresponding lateral one?!
Sincerely yours Sara |
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| evdb |
Posted on 24-04-2013 15:39
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Hi Sara, I am not sure to be able to appreciate what you need exactly. I see two apical bristles on scutellum : evdb attached the following image:  [61.6Kb] Edited by evdb on 24-04-2013 15:40 Eugene |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 24-04-2013 15:46
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It's Elachiptera but not--I think--E. diastema. None of the North European species in the genus look exactly like this. Something that does not occur here then 
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| evdb |
Posted on 24-04-2013 16:11
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Member Location: France (Loiret) Posts: 1357 Joined: 05.12.11 |
Thanks Kahis, Elachiptera is already well for me. Wen I saw it, I was not quite sure it was Chloropidae ! This one (from Russia but present in France !) inspired me : http://www.dipter...to_id=1316 Edited by evdb on 24-04-2013 16:24 Eugene |
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| Sara21392 |
Posted on 26-04-2013 06:37
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If I be right and saw the characters well I think looks like E. cf. rufifrons.
Sincerely yours Sara |
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| evdb |
Posted on 26-04-2013 07:07
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Member Location: France (Loiret) Posts: 1357 Joined: 05.12.11 |
I thanks you Sara to confirm Elachiptera
Eugene |
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| von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 04-05-2013 21:22
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Difficult to decide if it as an Elachiptera or a Lasiochaeta (= Melanochaeta auctorum, nec Bezzi, 1906; see Zootaxa 3267 [year 2012]: 44-54)). All European Elachiptera spp. possess warts or projections at the edge of the scutellum, different from Lasiochata spp. In this species warts seem to be absent. 2 or 3 orbital setulae are longer in both genera, one image seems to confirm this character. The blackish stripes on the mesonotum (= scutum) are artificial shadows produced by the flash light. The photographs do not show Lasiochaeta pubescens (Thalhammer, 1898) with its thickened arista, a species which is immigrating during the last years northwards till Britain and the German part of the North Sea. But possibly it is the unclarified "Elachiptera" rufescens (Walker, 1871), described from Egypt, which may really belong in Lasiochaeta, possibly being a senior synynym of pubescens. |
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| evdb |
Posted on 04-05-2013 21:34
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Member Location: France (Loiret) Posts: 1357 Joined: 05.12.11 |
The blackish stripes on the mesonotum (= scutum) are artificial shadows produced by the flash light. The only thing I know, this picture had not been flashed Eugene |
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