Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Nematocera Help Macrocera Keroplatidae Sciaroidea
Posted by jonrichfield on 29-06-2015 20:32
#1
A friend of mine photographed this tiny and delicate little Nematoceran. Does anyone have an idea of a tighter identification than that please?
Edited by jonrichfield on 30-06-2015 07:01
Posted by jonrichfield on 29-06-2015 20:33
#2
Here is a photo showing the antennal length:
Edited by jonrichfield on 29-06-2015 20:34
Posted by jonrichfield on 29-06-2015 20:36
#3
And finally a better view of the halteres
Posted by Xespok on 29-06-2015 20:50
#4
Macrocera sp.
Posted by jonrichfield on 30-06-2015 06:52
#5
Many thanks Gabor. You are certainly correct. I had never heard of Macrocera, nor even of Keroplatidae, so I doubly appreciate your assistance.
I was amused and slightly consoled to see that some other entomologists had gone down the same path: Ah! Ichneumo... oops! Halteres... Tipulidae... noooo...
Oh well, it is all education! Thanks again. |t
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-06-2015 07:57
#6
With vertical brown stripe on pleurae running down to middle coxa, it's probably
Macrocera lateralis Freeman, 1970.
A correction: antennae very long so it's rather
M. africana Freeman, 1970 (much more widespread).
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-06-2015 17:28
Posted by jonrichfield on 30-06-2015 19:47
#7
Thanks Dmitri, I'll pass that on. I really hadn't expected even a tentative ID at the species level.
It seems to be a remarkably widely distributed genus.