Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly with something on head

Posted by Lukasz Mielczarek on 08-01-2010 00:09
#1

Krakow. September 2009.
Any idea for ID?

Posted by Lukasz Mielczarek on 08-01-2010 00:11
#2

another view

Posted by phil withers on 08-01-2010 00:51
#3

This is just the ptilinum which has not yet retracted into the head.

Posted by Lukasz Mielczarek on 08-01-2010 19:16
#4

Now I know the species name :)
With my key to Rhinophoridae (Draber-Monko,1989) it is Phyto melanocephala.

Lukasz

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 08-01-2010 19:21
#5

Phil is right. That is no more than an inflated ptilinum . Sometimes with some flies the ptilinum doesn't go into... not a nice thing.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 08-01-2010 19:26