Thread subject: Diptera.info :: couple of Pipunculids

Posted by Sundew on 11-03-2009 17:13
#1

Hi,
Here is a loving couple, whose heads are all eyes. So I guess they might be Hybotids. The female seemed to be more dead than alive, but the male didn't care.
Who knows them? Seen on Usedom Island in last August.
Many thanks, Sundew

Edited by Sundew on 11-03-2009 17:21

Posted by Xespok on 11-03-2009 17:19
#2

Pipunculidae, Pipunculinae.

Posted by Sundew on 11-03-2009 17:20
#3

Thanks, Gabor, I shall change the title.

Posted by David Gibbs on 11-03-2009 18:35
#4

look like Pipunculus