Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Assilidae and unknown flies
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 18-08-2012 14:03
#1
Hi flyforum,
On 16th of August I got one Assilidae on a fence with prey and a little ''fly-hunter'' on these prey.
So It are three flyspecies.
Anyone familiar with one of these flies?
If needed I got some better views or better crops.
Place: Veluwe (near Kootwijk)
Date: 16-08-2012
greeting Robert
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 18-08-2012 14:03
Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-08-2012 16:44
#2
An empid (
Empis or
Rhamphomyia) and what looks to be a ceratopogonid. Possibly the hunter being hunted...
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 18-08-2012 20:01
#3
Hi Paul,
My idea was that this little fly got attrackted to the scene (when the Empis or Rhamphomyia was already catched).
Hereby a crop of my photo;
Robert
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 18-08-2012 20:05
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 19-08-2012 09:56
#4
In a Dutch forumthread I got the message(Gerard Pennards) that the little fly is Ceratopogonidae and that these flies also drink blood from other insects when they got the chance.
greeting Robert
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-08-2012 10:32
#5
If you had inlcuded the second picture in the thread I also could have told you it was sucking hemolymph. From the first image it was hard to tell it was alive. ;)