Thread subject: Diptera.info :: ID please
Posted by stizzy2499 on 27-07-2013 08:01
#1
Please excuse my total lack of knowledge in this field. I am asking for an ID request for a small very active fly I photographed some time ago. It was moving all the time and escaped before I got close enough to look at it. This is the only image I have taken from some distance and cropped.
Location: Buskett, Malta (woodland - on Quercus ilex leaf)
Date: 11th September 2012
Edited by stizzy2499 on 27-07-2013 08:11
Posted by rvanderweele on 27-07-2013 08:15
#2
ah, there it is: Tephritidae, but don't ask me which genus or species. It is not my group. ;)
Posted by ChrisR on 27-07-2013 08:50
#3
Moved to the correct forum :)
Posted by stizzy2499 on 27-07-2013 08:50
#4
Thank for sorting this Ruud, I need some strong coffee!, Err, I mean ChrisR .....:|
Edited by stizzy2499 on 27-07-2013 08:53
Posted by rvanderweele on 27-07-2013 10:08
#5
Any way, welcome on diptera.info. Lots of interesting flies on Malta for sure!!
Posted by stizzy2499 on 27-07-2013 11:09
#6
Thanks, I will be posting a few others later on.
Posted by Sundew on 27-07-2013 12:35
#7
Welcome to the forum! As to colouration I'd say
Acidia cognata (they love to run on leaves in half-shady woods), but, unfortunately, details of wing pattern as well as thorax bristles are not clearly visible. Valery or another Tephritid expert should better confirm my guess.
Next time better luck with still-sitting flies :D!
Regards, Sundew
Edited by Sundew on 27-07-2013 12:41