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Small acalyptrate fly - Diastata flavicosta (or fuscula)
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Aspirated from a fallen deciduous tree trunk in Sussex, UK, August 2023. The scale intervals are 0.5mm
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Aspirated from a fallen deciduous tree trunk in Sussex, UK, August 2023. The scale intervals are 0.5mm
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Diastata?
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Hmmm .... someone else (iNat) suggested Trixoscelis (Heleomyzidae). The spikes on the costa look right for that, but the setae on the mesonotum look wrong.

Diastata (cf costata?) looks like a good idea!
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Diastata, looks like D. flavicosta but a rather detailed study (arista, genitalia) is needed to distinguish it from D. fuscula. I suggest to send the specimen to Peter Chandler.
 
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Hmmm, looks like fuscula but not flavicosta is in the UK list.

Unfortunately, I want to sequence the genome - which is not compatible with ding anything else to the specimen!
 
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Darren - you shouldn't need the whole specimen for DNA investigation. Remove the posterior half of the abdomen - this has all you need to identify the specimen morphologically (male genitalia). And the remainder of the specimen will be plenty to extract your DNA samples.
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Hi!

Unfortunately genome sequencing requires a lot more DNA than for PCR/Sanger for COI etc (which need <1ng DNA). Minimum for Novaseq/short-read genome might be ~20ng at ~2ng/ul, and in fact we often struggle to get enough at sufficient concentration from single Drosophila.

But this would actually be going for ONT long read, which really would benefit from the whole fly. For comparison, Darwin tree of life ask for 4 specimens when doing stuff this small (Hifi,HiC,RNA, and spare!)

It's part of a Drosophilidae project, but the world is desperately short of suitable outgroup genomes (i.e. Ephydroidea) and so my collaborator is searching for (fresh, -20C in Ethanol) specimens to sequence!

The species really don't matter, so long as they sit between Opomyzoidea/Carnoidea and Drosophilidae!

I'll check with my collaborator, and see what he thinks.

Thanks!

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