Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ulidiidae 1, Kazakhstan, Timia
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-06-2008 19:36
#1
23 June 2008, southern outskirts of Almaty, 43.216349?N, 76.937033?E, edge of apple orchards, on
Asclepias syriaca flowers. Size 7 to 7.5 mm. Other specimen was swept in the steppe on 20 June.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-06-2008 22:23
#2
Could it be Pyrgotidae...?
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-06-2008 22:48
#3
Why not a
Timia? Please compare with
Timia testacea at
http://pics.livej.../0003w1kx/ (it's not a reliable source of course). Maybe I'll check keys in Zaitsev, 1984 (Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 63(4):628-630) and Gorodkov & Zaitsev, 1986 (Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 65(12):1901-1905) or better wait for the expert to return from vacation.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 27-03-2009 10:56
#4
Identified as
Timia nigripes Mik, 1889 by Tatiana Golinskaya, a postgraduate student of Ulidiidae/Otitidae/Tephritidae.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 01-04-2009 14:19
#5
Yes, Elena Kameneva has also confirmed this ID. Sorry - we had not seen this before. Also, you can use Elena's PhD thesis (in Ukrainian) - to check it. There is at least a working key to Central Asian
Timia:
http://sites.goog...era/resume
see at page bottom for references
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-04-2009 10:49
#6
Thanks a lot Valery.