Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dolichopodidae #1 10/07/09
Posted by Roger Thomason on 10-07-2009 19:27
#1
This little one was seen in the garden today.
Size 2.5-3mm ish.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 10-07-2009 19:28
#2
2
Posted by Roger Thomason on 10-07-2009 19:28
#3
3.
Posted by Stefan Naglis on 11-07-2009 08:59
#4
Syntormon sp.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 11-07-2009 18:58
#5
Cheers Stefan
What have I got to do...every hair/bristle is showing in Glorious Technicolour.....
sp
I've seen out of focus, too dark, too far away images go through here...result....species. Maybe I should use a camera phone, or a Box Brownie....anybody got an old Instamatic I could buy??
Posted by Marc Pollet on 04-11-2009 23:55
#6
Dear Roger,
It's not the quality of the pictures that causes "sp." pop up once more, but the mere gender of this specimen, which is feminine (and that's usually bad news in dolichopodidid flies).
Well, my best guess (after considering all necessary characters) would be Syntormon pallipes assuming that the fore coxa is partly or mainly pale, the tarsi dark from the apex of the metatarsus onwards, and the hind tibia entirely yellow).
Cheers,
Marc
Dr Marc Pollet (marc.pollet@inbo.be)
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-11-2009 01:34
#7
Cheers Marc
S.pallipes is the only
Syntormon sp. recorded up here previously, your best guess is good enough for me.
I'd forgotten about this post, must have been in a bad mood the day that last message was posted...:| :D
Regards Roger....in a better mood, thankfully.