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Rui Andrade
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Posted on 22-09-2008 00:27
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Is an identification possible?
I faced a big problem when I pinned this fly. A leg came out when I inserted the pin through the fly :-s. This problem is one of the things that I most feared whenever I thought about pinning. Do you have any advice?

location: Barcelos, Portugal
date: 20/09/2008

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The scutellar bristles are strong and erect, the species is blackish and the eyes are bare, so it is a Lydella.
Difficult to say more, third antennal segment is rather long, suggesting thompsoni (easy to recognize by the form of the Sturmia-spot at ventral side).

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Is the spot you talk about there? Where is it located?

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Hard to see much on the underside on that photo ... the "Sturmia-spot" is a dense patch of short bristles on ends of tergites 4-5 on the ventral side.
 
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The right spot is under the right hind tibia.

But you need to get more light at the top of your pics.


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I?ll show you these four images but I'm having difficulties in seeing the "Sturmia-spot".

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Sorry for posting so many times but I can't seem to be able to post more than one photo per post :-S.

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