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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Nice eyed fly-what is it?<Tephritidae..Dioxyna bidentis <ID -Ben Hamers

Posted by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2008 16:57

Photographed this afternoon in my garden. Anyone put a name to this little beauty? Size approx-5-6mm. sorry about the quality but its blowing a gale here at the moment/again!!!!

Edited by Roger Thomason on 18-09-2008 20:24

Posted by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2008 16:59

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Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-09-2008 21:50

Not Sciomyzidae - Tephritidae

Posted by Roger Thomason on 17-09-2008 22:27

Hi Nikita
Thanks for the info. I looked through the Gallery, ( a slow and painful experience):@ and saw the Sciomyzidae and thought that was it as I have one species on my list-no Tephritidae :|. Oh well.
Regards Roger

Posted by David Clements on 18-09-2008 08:55

I would guess that this is a Paroxyna species.

Posted by Ben Hamers on 18-09-2008 18:52

Dioxyna bidentis

Ben

Posted by Roger Thomason on 18-09-2008 20:21

Thanks Ben and everybody else, in getting to an ID on this great looking fly :D.
Appreciate the input.Regards Roger.
ANOTHER new species for the list B)

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 19-09-2008 20:51

Sorry, it is a Campiglossa (= Paroxyna) of the doronici complex, probably from the mountains (if a European one). Please idicate where it is from, it would facilitate ID

Posted by Roger Thomason on 19-09-2008 22:18

Hello Valery
Just when I thought this was done and dusted, up pops another name.
The fly was photographed in my garden in Mossbank, Shetland Isles. We have no mountains here, the closest would be in Norway. I was out in the garden today and there are many of them feeding on Polygonum sp. flowers, but too windy to focus on them. I did get a lateral shot of one on the greenhouse which I have attached.
Regards Roger

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 25-09-2008 08:51

#10

Sorry Roger. The lateral view shows that this is nothing as Dioxyna bidentis R.-D., quite a subcosmopolitan fly feeding in seeds of Bidens spp.

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 25-09-2008 08:52

Posted by Roger Thomason on 25-09-2008 14:13

#11

Thanks Valery
That certainly clears things up ;). D bidentis it is.
Regards Roger