Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platypezidae - Lindneromyia flavicornis (Loew, 1866)
Posted by bradbarnd on 09-10-2012 02:31
#1
Photos by Tom Murray: taken in Essex County, Massachusetts, August 31 2012.
Using Manual of Nearctic Diptera Vol 2, I keyed these (from the specimens) to
Plesioclythia (1 eastern sp., 3 western spp.). Hopefully that is the correct determination. This genus has apparently been synonymized with
Lindneromyia. I don't have the literature to do the scavenger hunt for the name of the eastern species that was once in
Plesioclythia (maybe
flavicornis Loew ??), but I'm hoping someone here will know! :)
Photos are of two individuals.
Individual 1
Individual 2
Edited by bradbarnd on 10-10-2012 23:33
Posted by weia on 10-10-2012 19:31
#2
L. hungarica? Although the legs do not seem to be broad enough.
Edited by weia on 10-10-2012 19:33
Posted by bradbarnd on 10-10-2012 23:12
#3
Weia wrote:
L. hungarica? Although the legs do not seem to be broad enough.
I presume that would be a European species. These are from northeastern USA.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 10-10-2012 23:29
#4
I'd suggest
Lindneromyia flavicornis (Loew, 1866), at least that female runs more or less here both in Banks, 1915 (J.N.Y.Ent.Soc., 23 (4):213-216) and Johnson, 1923 (Occ.Papers Boston Soc.Nat.Hist., 5:51-58). I don't have yet the descriptions of 4 regional spp. made by Kessel (1950, 1967) though.
P.S. Oh I have overlooked flavicornis mentioned in the first post.
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 10-10-2012 23:32
Posted by bradbarnd on 10-10-2012 23:33
#5
Dmitry Gavryushin wrote:
I'd suggest Lindneromyia flavicornis (Loew, 1866), at least that female runs more or less here both in Banks, 1915 (J.N.Y.Ent.Soc., 23 (4):213-216) and Johnson, 1923 (Occ.Papers Boston Soc.Nat.Hist., 5:51-58). I don't have yet the descriptions of 4 regional spp. made by Kessel (1950, 1967) though.
Thanks Dmitry!!
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 10-10-2012 23:34
#6
Please provide us with more images of Nearctic flat-footed ones...
Posted by bradbarnd on 10-10-2012 23:49
#7
Dmitry Gavryushin wrote:
Please provide us with more images of Nearctic flat-footed ones...
More images of Nearctic Platypezidae can be found here:
http://bugguide.n...26/bgimage.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 12-10-2012 11:21
#8
Well, the female in http://bugguide.net/node/view/293464/bgimage and http://bugguide.net/node/view/293462/bgimage as well as the male in http://bugguide.net/node/view/282839/bgimage and http://bugguide.net/node/view/282838/bgimage are most probably
Agathomyia pulchella (Johnson, 1908). The male in http://bugguide.net/node/view/619092/bgimage and http://bugguide.net/node/view/146363/bgimage is most likely
Callomyia venusta Snow, 1894. I wouldn't bet on this w/o specimens though.
Posted by michal tkoc on 21-11-2012 18:13
#9
Very nice photos, very intersting species - I think it shoud be very closely related to European L. hungarica.