Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small Acalyptrate, N-E HU, August

Posted by pwalter on 05-09-2009 00:26
#1

At the end of August, I collected this ~ 2.5 mm long one, could only photograph it now with my new camera :)

Edited by pwalter on 05-09-2009 00:27

Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-09-2009 00:42
#2

Looks like Drosophilidae...one for Paul :).

Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-09-2009 00:10
#3

Scaptomyza pallida?

Posted by pwalter on 06-09-2009 00:15
#4

Probably it is but it was smaller than the ones I usualy see.

Edited by pwalter on 06-09-2009 00:15

Posted by Xespok on 06-09-2009 09:43
#5

I think because this is a male. Females are much larger.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-09-2009 08:22
#6

Male of Scaptomyza pallida. Males usually are smaller, but larger males may outsize smaller females. All has to do with available food in larval stage.