Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scatopsidae, NE HU, Oct 2009

Posted by pwalter on 29-01-2010 22:10
#1

A rather Scatopse-like specimen, some 2,4 mm long. What could it be? By mountain brook?

Posted by pwalter on 29-01-2010 22:10
#2

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Edited by pwalter on 29-01-2010 22:10

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-02-2010 14:08
#3

Most likely is Apiloscatopse picea.

Posted by pwalter on 01-02-2010 15:42
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Thank You, meanwhile I found a picture of the specimen: the colouration and size and habitat also fits according to my old key. Femora, Tibiae yellowish proximally (just a small piece of it), wing vein brown, body with yellow markings. Aedeagus S-shaped. All as must be :)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-02-2010 15:56
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Based on what I can see now I would change my opinion to scutellata, for example based on the tip of the penis, which is plate-like rather than narrow with a subapical hook. Both species are very much alike but are different in genitalia but also in general colouration: more yellowish parts in scutellata. The scutellum is more yellow in scutellata than in picea but in turn the femora in scutellata have more black.