Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phasia for ID, C Spain --> Phasia (Hyalomyia) sp.
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 20-03-2014 15:50
#1
A very early
Phasia, I think :) Found feeding on
Euphorbia helioscopia in area with mediterranean vegetation in C Spain. Date: 19.03.2014. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :)
Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 21-03-2014 20:09
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 20-03-2014 15:51
#2
Another view.
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 20-03-2014 15:51
#3
And another one.
Posted by ChrisR on 20-03-2014 16:55
#4
My guess would be
P. pusilla - can you see the halteres or face on any other photos? :)
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 20-03-2014 19:27
#5
Thanks a lot for your reply, Chris!! :)
I am afraid these are the only photos of this specimen :( But I have much better pictures of another specimen feeding on the same flowers just a few minutes earlier. Only that the other one looks somehow different. The distance between the eyes looks a bit wider. Perhaps the female? No idea if both sexes can be told apart from external caracters in
Phasia.
I am going to prepare pictures of the other specimen in a different thread as soon as I can ;)
But halteres are nearly impossible to photograph in
Phasia :( They are always covered by those huge calypters :@ What should I look for in the face of the other specimen? That will help me to select the most useful views ;)
Posted by ChrisR on 20-03-2014 21:45
#6
Possibly female -
Phasia pusilla &
barbifrons are not easy to sex. :)
Posted by Zeegers on 21-03-2014 09:03
#7
Pusilla or another species from the pusilla-group (Hyalomyia): there are many more in Spain !
Impossible to tell from pictures (genitalia needed).
Theo
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 21-03-2014 20:08
#8
Chris, Theo, thanks for your replies :)
I see there isn't much point in struggling with pictures of this group.
Phasia (Hyalomyia) sp. is good enough for me ;)