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Heleomyzidae on the snow
Lukasz Mielczarek
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I found it yestarday near Wloszczowa.
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Really coming (see shoutbox comments !) Grin

Probable female of Orbellia [i] hiemalis !
How many scutellar bristles ? (important to ID to the species level),

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Hello Lukasz,

it appears to me a fine female Eccoptomera. Most of the specimens, which I collected, were indeed collected on snow.

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maybe 4?
 
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If you put a knife on my throat I would say a E. emarginate Lw, but maybe others will have another opinion. Better to look at the specimen a bit closer

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Grin
 
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You agree Jorge?
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The body colouration is closer to my cat than to Eccoptomera Grin
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4 what? 4 Eccoptomera`s? No more. I collected them even sometimes in small series on snow in Budapest. I think I collected about 15 specimens. But I should check in my pc upstairs, and I am too lazy right now
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I should add here, honestly, that it is more than 10 years ago!
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Fly is 8mm, 6 scutellar bristles.
 
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hmm, forget Eccoptomera then, they, as far as I remember have only 2 pairs. It is also pretty big then
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rvanderweele wrote:
You agree Jorge?


No. Just liked the way you begin the sentence: "If you put a knife on my throat I would say " Smile
It is some Orbellia. which one, dunno.
 
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So it is O. hiemalis Wink
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there are many Orbellia around... I hope.
How these flies can support such cold temperatures? WHich are the features that enables them to face such conditions?
 
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Orbellia? Oef, when coming back to Holland I looked for years to Orbellia`s on snow. Never found them, while they were pretty common in Hungary. I collected some series even on the factory walls, where I worked as an engineer. At least every sunny day in winter I saw some. This was, BTW, O. hiemalis. O. cuniculorum I collected only once.
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engineer? Grin in which field?
 
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Difficult to comments ! But it was probably shining at the moment ?
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