Thread subject: Diptera.info :: nice, little acalyptera
Posted by mwkozlowski on 03-07-2015 14:51
#1
met today on wet sandbar in Vistula river, near Warsaw PL, ID-able?
Edited by mwkozlowski on 03-07-2015 14:53
Posted by John Carr on 03-07-2015 15:35
#2
Acalyptrate near water with arista plumose above, bare below normally indicates Ephydridae. Gymnomyzinae?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 03-07-2015 21:25
#3
Looks rather like
Diclasiopa (Ephydridae)
Posted by mwkozlowski on 05-07-2015 21:38
#4
In the gallery, ephrydids from
Hecamede spp. are also alike…
Posted by Tony Irwin on 05-07-2015 22:09
#5
They do look similar, but they have significant differences in chaetotaxy. For instance, your specimen has a posterior notopleural bristle which is slightly closer to the lower margin of the notopleuron than the anterior one. In
Hecamede, this bristle is more dorsal in position. Also
Hecamede albicans (the sole European species) has milky wings and a large black protruberance in the middle of the face.
Posted by mwkozlowski on 06-07-2015 08:57
#6
sure, I can only say, that I was far from any doubt that you diagnosis was correct!
Edited by mwkozlowski on 06-07-2015 08:58
Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-07-2015 18:52
#7
I don't always get it right! :D