Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae [->Platystomatidae]
Posted by pierred on 06-09-2008 08:34
#1
Hello,
Seen in the P?rigord (south of France), 270 masl, 27/VII/2008, size about 5mm.
I can't find anythink like this in the gallery.
Thanks in advance for any pointer.
Edited by pierred on 07-09-2008 16:45
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-09-2008 09:13
#2
no, Pierre. This is Platystomatidae - Platystoma sp.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 06-09-2008 15:32
#3
Certainly a
Platystoma, but no further ID from this picture is possible.
Posted by pierred on 06-09-2008 15:43
#4
Hello,
thanks to both of you.
Posted by pierred on 07-09-2008 16:46
#5
Hello,
Same place, same date, same size, but the body colour is very different.
Posted by cosmln on 07-09-2008 18:02
#6
pierred wrote:
Hello,
Same place, same date, same size, but the body colour is very different.
Sciomyzidae,
Trypetoptera punctulata
cosmln
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 07-09-2008 18:42
#7
The very famous fly every famous Tephritidae expert tried to determine using tephritid keys (of course when he or she was just a young newbee). B)
Posted by pierred on 08-09-2008 07:37
#8
Well, I understand that I'm in a very good company.
Thanks.
Posted by Kahis on 08-09-2008 08:06
#9
Nosferatumyia wrote:
The very famous fly every famous Tephritidae expert tried to determine using tephritid keys (of course when he or she was just a young newbee). B)
Guilty as charged :)
...not that I would call myself a Tephritid expert, but still.
Posted by Andrew Whittington on 10-04-2009 17:49
#10
Back to the first pictures, I'd hazard a guess at
Platystoma lugubre in which the two hyaline spots apicad of the terminus of R1, are divided by a third spot in cell R2+3. To my knowledge no other species in
Platystoma has this pattern. Looking closely, it appears that the third spot actually joins the proximal of the two R1 spots, making appear that the proximal spot is branched ... possibly variation ... Val?
Edited by Andrew Whittington on 10-04-2009 17:53