Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Anthomyiidae?
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| noodle_snacks |
Posted on 15-07-2009 03:48
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Member Location: Posts: 8 Joined: 14.07.09 |
Unidentified on Dill, Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Australia around the 11th of June.  Scale bar is about 2mm |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 15-07-2009 17:15
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
Female Anthomyiidae. There are very few endemic species of this family in Australia, but it looks like Delia urbana Malloch as I think I can see an anteroventral seta on the mid tibia. But don't take this as a definite det. |
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| noodle_snacks |
Posted on 16-07-2009 08:14
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Member Location: Posts: 8 Joined: 14.07.09 |
A much higher resolution image is available at: http://upload.wik...y_9820.jpg If it helps narrow it down. Edited by ChrisR on 20-07-2009 08:58 |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 17-07-2009 09:17
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
Thanks for the higher resolution photo, it makes it possible to identify it. It's not Delia urbana Mall. because the prealar setae is too long, and the anteroventral seta on mid tibia is also much longer than urbana. It is Adia cinerella Fall. note the protruding mouth margin. This fly is an introduced fly to Australia, and breeds in dung. Now found in most parts of the world. Probably came over in the C19 on a ship, and has spread all over Australia |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 20-07-2009 08:30
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
As this is definite det, why don't you add it to the gallery? |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-07-2009 09:00
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I agree - nice photo and we don't have a lot of anthos in the gallery 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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