Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heleomyzids x3

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:50
#1

3 specimens may be 1 species

Norway, 14.09

Specimen 1:

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:52
#2

different angle

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:53
#3

Specimen 2

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:54
#4

different angle

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:55
#5

Specimen 3

Posted by cyprinoid on 14-09-2009 18:56
#6

an one last

Let me know if anything important is out of view!

Posted by Roger Thomason on 14-09-2009 19:18
#7

Suillia affinis by the look of it.

Posted by Andrzej on 14-09-2009 19:54
#8

Not S. affinis ! Arista pubescent and femora distinctly "swollen".
I would say similis species-group ! Difficult to ID from the pics ! :@

Posted by Roger Thomason on 15-09-2009 09:57
#9

Hmm..Close for me..;)..but no cigar :|.
Thanks for explaining the visual differences Andrzej. Learned more from getting it wrong, than by being "lucky" and getting it right.

Regards Roger

Posted by Andrzej on 15-09-2009 10:24
#10

next step: scutellum with wide bare middle part ! In S. affinis scutellum totally covered by small hairs :D
Best wishes,
Andrzej

Posted by Roger Thomason on 15-09-2009 11:24
#11

Hi Andrzej
Maybe I should have put "some" of the visual differences in my previous post..:)..but then I wouldn't have got the next step..;)..I dread to think how many more there are. :|. Don't tell me.....that's enough information for a wet Tuesday morning in Shetland.

Regards Roger

Posted by Andrzej on 15-09-2009 12:20
#12

But ... it was the last one ;)