Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Coenosia attenuata?
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| Muhammad Mahdi |
Posted on 31-12-2008 10:24
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 Member Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Posts: 447 Joined: 26.12.08 |
Is the fly below a Coenosia attenuata? Lying on a Moringa branch, app 5mm long. Thanks Muhammad 
Edited by Muhammad Mahdi on 31-12-2008 10:36 |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 31-12-2008 11:00
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
This Coenosia certainly belongs to the same group than C. attenuata with appromiated antero-dorsal and antero-ventral bristles on hind tibia. I assume it is from Tanzania too, no ? In Europe I would have rather said C. strigipes than C. attenuata because of the entirely yellow legs (it seems to be a female), but if it is from Tanzania, it could well be something else...
Stephane. |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 31-12-2008 11:40
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
C.strigipes is most common in Madagascar, for example. I think you can put this name with very few doubts. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Muhammad Mahdi |
Posted on 01-01-2009 07:51
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Member Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Posts: 447 Joined: 26.12.08 |
Yeah it is from Tanzania. Thanks for the help. |
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