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Mycetophilidae.
Pietro
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 Villanova Monteleone, Sardinia 8/02/2010 dimensions: around 6/7 mm.
Possible genre ID?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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 Sciarid rather than Mycetophilid, I think.
 
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 I agree: I'm intrigued, as in my experience not many sciarids have a reddish thorax. A pity it's a female (and presumably was not collected). Go find some males !
 
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 Thanks oxycera, thanks Phil
next weekend will try to capture some exemplary
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