Posted by Gordon on 22-10-2008 10:56
#1
Hi,
As usual this fly is from Wetland Kerkini, from the mountains, several sites all above 1000 ms, Autumn.
Rozkosny, 1987, has only one species with the displayed combination of a distinct propleural setae/bristle and only one orbital setae (F-bristle),
Ditaeniella grisescens, this is not this species, it is two big and the Mesopleuron/Anepisternum is bare.
As to the 2 couplets before this in the key. It can't be Pelidnoptera because as the lower inset shows there are no distinct seatae/bristles in the middle of the hind tibia, and wing venation rules out Salticella.
I'd like to think it must be an undescribed species, but it seems more likely that I have made a mistake. All help gratefully recieved.
Gordon
Posted by Gordon on 22-10-2008 11:48
#3
Ah Paul,
Where would I be without you.
Looks an awful lot like a Sciomyzid still, and when you read the descriptions of the families in Oosterbroek there is a big area overlap for the less distinctive species. I wonder what makes them a separate family.?????
Gordon