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 Fly - no idea
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| Michael Stemmer |
Posted on 09-01-2012 16:59
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 Member Location: D-53572 Unkel, Germany Posts: 572 Joined: 06.08.06 |
Hello, I have no idea what sort of fly this could be. Size, approximately, about 5 mm, if I remember it right. Location: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinum, 53572 Unkel, River Rhine valley, dry and warm habitat, June 19th, 2011. Thanks in advance, Michael www.naturraum-stu... |
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| Michael Stemmer |
Posted on 09-01-2012 17:00
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Member Location: D-53572 Unkel, Germany Posts: 572 Joined: 06.08.06 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-01-2012 17:14
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Acroceridae - change the title to attract Jorge 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 09-01-2012 17:15
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Acroceridae. No key at hand, here, but if Jorge spots it he will jump on it.
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| Michael Stemmer |
Posted on 09-01-2012 17:22
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Member Location: D-53572 Unkel, Germany Posts: 572 Joined: 06.08.06 |
Hello Jorge, thanks for your answer. ChrisR wrote: Looks like Acroceridae - change the title to attract Jorge How can this be done? Greetings Michael |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 10-01-2012 23:00
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
This is an Acrocera sp. And most likely to be A. orbiculus - (current name accepted http://www.faunae...p?id=59493) precisely with the same features I can see in mine specimens from Serra da Estrela. Do you know the prevalence of the spider families in the location? I'm asking this because the acrocerids are endoparasitoids of spiders, mainly in Lycosidae, Thomisidae, Salticidae , some I can recall now. Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-01-2012 23:08 |
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| Michael Stemmer |
Posted on 11-01-2012 07:14
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Member Location: D-53572 Unkel, Germany Posts: 572 Joined: 06.08.06 |
Hello Jorge, thanks for the determination of the fly. I add a second foto - perhaps it makes the determination a little bit more clear. There are a lot of spiders around here, but most common are the Lycosidae. Greetings from the river Rhine valley to Portugal, Michael Michael Stemmer attached the following image:  [77.41Kb] |
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