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Posted on 06-05-2009 20:33
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about 3mm in woodland SW London

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Hi!

Hybotidae (Bicellaria?).
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Ptiolina of the Rhagionidae.
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Hello, Paul!

Paul Beuk wrote:
Ptiolina of the Rhagionidae.


Uhh...?!? Then I don't know, if I stored the one below under the correct name (from May-05 at a hedge, 2.5-3 mm)...
Juergen Peters attached the following image:


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Hi Juergen,

Yours is a Bicellaria.
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Notice the differences in the legs (longer and more slender in Bicellaria), the thorax (more spherically swollen in Bicellaria) and the antennae (antennal style arising dorsally in Bicellaria).
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Hello, Jan Willem and Paul!

Thanks very much for your replies!

Paul Beuk wrote:
Notice the differences in the legs (longer and more slender in Bicellaria), the thorax (more spherically swollen in Bicellaria) and the antennae (antennal style arising dorsally in Bicellaria).


That are details I still have to learn as an amateur Cool. The relative leg length and "hump" size I took for possible interspecific (umpf... likely wrong term) differences.
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Juergen's fly is eating a Phorid, I think Grin
 
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