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Juergen Peters
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Posted on 23-11-2007 17:28
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Hello!

A striking, large (8-9 mm) Mycetophilid (?) with shiny black wings from our house wall yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany) Can it be determined more closely? Thanks!
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Posted on 23-11-2007 21:20
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Juergen Peters wrote:
Hello!

A striking, large (8-9 mm) Mycetophilid (?) with shiny black wings from our house wall yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany) Can it be determined more closely? Thanks!


i think this species or something closer i have seen today.
made some photo (not succeeded to collect that one), i will come back with that next days... now i'm on the "road".
i post this because maybe is something useful for ID. the exemplar was hovering for couple of minute on the bark of a Pinus nigra. he just run on the bark, under the bark... don't know for what.

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Hello, cosmln!

cosmln wrote:
i post this because maybe is something useful for ID. the exemplar was hovering for couple of minute on the bark of a Pinus nigra. he just run on the bark, under the bark... don't know for what.


Thanks! We have no bigger pine trees here, but a few small (1.5-2 m) garden pines near the house.
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