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| vida |
Posted on 01-01-2010 16:24
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Member Location: South Africa Posts: 116 Joined: 28.05.09 |
A tiny fly from my garden. Can someone please help with an ID?
vida attached the following image:  [183.48Kb] Edited by vida on 01-01-2010 16:31 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 01-01-2010 16:37
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
a freakin' Platypezidae! |
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| vida |
Posted on 01-01-2010 16:43
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Member Location: South Africa Posts: 116 Joined: 28.05.09 |
Thank you very much Jorge! Why freakin? Please excuse me if it was a stupid question. I'm just an amateur photographer and not an entomologist. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 01-01-2010 16:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
it is a way to express the beauty of this fly and specially the bicolour of the eyes. Also I love so much those very small microtrichia (very small "hairs" ) acrostichal (zone between the middle and the periphery of the thorax...). The fly itself resembles like a robot fly.. the greyish metallic colour and the position it has in relation to the leaf.your ccd needs a clean. this is the big disadvantage in dslr! 
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 01-01-2010 16:57 |
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| vida |
Posted on 01-01-2010 17:00
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Member Location: South Africa Posts: 116 Joined: 28.05.09 |
Thank you Jorge. Glad you like the fly. You are right, my sensor is dirty. I normally clean up those dust spots but forgot this time. Will repost a clean image.
vida attached the following image:  [183.14Kb] Edited by vida on 01-01-2010 17:08 |
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| michal tkoc |
Posted on 19-12-2010 14:23
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 Member Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 237 Joined: 07.11.06 |
This is most probably some species of Lindneromyia ! Could be described as Symmetricela or Pennesymetria, now it is synonymised. Michal PS: Catch it next time and send it to me
Curator of Diptera, Entomology Department, National Museum Prague. PhD. Student, Charles University. Prague, Czech Republic. |
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