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| Sesia |
Posted on 03-10-2010 19:31
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
Hi everyone, I am hoping you can help me brush up my fly identification skills. This 3 mm (top of head to tip of abdomen) fly was collected in a grape juice trap. Date: 10. VII. 2009 Location: Cawston, Okanagan-Similkameen, BC, Canada. Habitat: apple orchard surrounded by Artemisia tridentata scrubland. Edited by Sesia on 03-10-2010 19:39 |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 03-10-2010 19:37
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
Picture doesn't appear. Possibly you have to remove spaces from the file name.
Edited by Jeroen K on 03-10-2010 19:37 |
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| Sesia |
Posted on 03-10-2010 19:40
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
I can't attach it. The image is 175 kb, width is 600 pixels and the file name is just letters and numbers, nothing else. File extension is .jpg |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 03-10-2010 19:48
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
And no space in the name?
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| Sesia |
Posted on 03-10-2010 19:59
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
No spaces, no capital letters and resolution is 72 dpi. The image was processed in Photoshop in order to remove color cast (blue-green), halo and other artifacts from microscope. Does anyone have any suggestion how my overcome this issue? |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 03-10-2010 20:04
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
Maybe you could try uploading it with ImageShack and place the image link in your message... |
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| Sesia |
Posted on 03-10-2010 20:18
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
http://img840.imageshack.us/i/pcs44jul10.jpg/ This is the link to the dorsolateral aspect of the little guy. I hope this works since i have linked an image before this way. |
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| Sesia |
Posted on 03-10-2010 20:28
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
http://img684.imageshack.us/i/pcs44jul10v.jpg/ This is the ventrolateral image (ventral head, lateral side of thorax). I hope this links will suffice/work because attaching images to my posts apparently does not work. Thanks for your patience. |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 03-10-2010 20:51
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
It works! No idea about the ID, though. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 04-10-2010 09:08
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Looks like Minettia desmometopa (Lauxaniidae) but probably a related nearctic species rather than desmometopa itself.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Sesia |
Posted on 11-10-2010 01:16
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Member Location: Richmond, BC, Canada Posts: 21 Joined: 03.10.10 |
Thanks so much Paul for your help, i really appreciate it. What is the main characteristic of the Lauxaniidae family compared to the related families of microflies? Marius |
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