Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly from Hong Kong: water-skating fly

Posted by chickenold on 31-01-2009 15:09
#1
Found today on the surface of a small pool in a swampy area near seaside.
Length about 8mm.
Quite a number of them on the water surface that somehow looked like water skaters.
Can it be identified to family level?

www.fotoc.com/chickenold/d/7926-1/IMG+017e.jpg

Posted by pwalter on 31-01-2009 16:01
#2
I think Muscidae, Limnophora, Lispe? Other?

Posted by Xespok on 31-01-2009 16:07
#3
Ephydridae.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 31-01-2009 16:17
#4
Ephydridae, Ephydrinae. Near Brachydeutera?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-01-2009 17:07
#5
I'd say Brachydeutera too