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 Anthomyiidae?
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| Michael Becker |
Posted on 15-05-2007 20:11
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Member Location: Germany, Neuss Posts: 1268 Joined: 16.01.07 |
Hello, is family Anthomyiidae correct here? Can genus or species (ok, I have not much hope here for species) be determined? Thanks, Michael Michael Becker attached the following image:  [54.88Kb] |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 15-05-2007 22:50
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7280 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Yes, Anthomyiidae male. Kahis may recognise the genus. 
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 16-05-2007 00:11
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
...or he may utterly fail to do so 
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| Michael Becker |
Posted on 16-05-2007 16:10
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Member Location: Germany, Neuss Posts: 1268 Joined: 16.01.07 |
Hello, thank you for your answers. This family seems to be particularly difficult. Michael |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 16-05-2007 16:23
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
It is.Virtually impossible without named reference material.This is surprising since many are important crop pests.Nice pic Robert |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 16-05-2007 16:51
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Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
The problem with Anthomyiidae is not that species-level identification would be unusually difficult. What is problematic is the fact that there are very few really obvious clues for splitting them to genera, which means they must be treated as a daunting mass of similar-looking species. There's no easy middle step between family- ja species level. From a practical point of view the whole family forms a single cluster of over 300 species. Few of us have to inclination to learn all the minure (but usually well-defined) characters separating the species by heart 
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