Thread subject: Diptera.info :: mating flies
Posted by Toby on 06-05-2009 20:33
#1
about 3mm in woodland SW London
Posted by Juergen Peters on 06-05-2009 20:51
#2
Hi!
Hybotidae (
Bicellaria?).
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-05-2009 07:34
#3
Ptiolina of the Rhagionidae.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-05-2009 20:55
#4
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
Ptiolina of the Rhagionidae.
Uhh...?!? Then I don't know, if I stored the one below under the correct name (from May-05 at a hedge, 2.5-3 mm)...
Posted by Jan Willem on 08-05-2009 09:50
#5
Hi Juergen,
Yours is a
Bicellaria.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 08-05-2009 12:09
#6
Notice the differences in the legs (longer and more slender in
Bicellaria), the thorax (more spherically swollen in
Bicellaria) and the antennae (antennal style arising dorsally in
Bicellaria).
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-05-2009 19:20
#7
Hello, Jan Willem and Paul!
Thanks very much for your replies!
Paul Beuk wrote:
Notice the differences in the legs (longer and more slender in Bicellaria), the thorax (more spherically swollen in Bicellaria) and the antennae (antennal style arising dorsally in Bicellaria).
That are details I still have to learn as an amateur B). The relative leg length and "hump" size I took for possible interspecific (umpf... likely wrong term) differences.
Posted by pwalter on 08-05-2009 20:17
#8
Juergen's fly is eating a Phorid, I think :D