Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Asteiidae, NE HU, 05.2010

Posted by pwalter on 03-05-2010 08:43
#1

Hi, I had to lay down into nettles to make these photos. They are on the underside of a polypore in forest, by brook, some 2.8 mm long. I collected one specimen only, I think their population may have been quite small, so I wanted to let the others go free :) Are they Asteia?

Edited by pwalter on 03-05-2010 08:43

Posted by KWQ on 05-05-2010 19:05
#2

Are there some southern/Central European Asteia species with an abdominal pattern? To my eyes these look like Drosophila sp.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-05-2010 19:40
#3

I think they might be Asteiidae, but I'd need specimens to see which one.

Posted by pwalter on 05-05-2010 20:01
#4

I will have access to the specimen this weekend, will see, what I can make of it. Maybe I can key it out also.

Posted by Xespok on 06-05-2010 00:12
#5

Maybe again Mycodrosophila poecilogastra?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-05-2010 18:48
#6

You are right. I think they are not fully coloured yet, though, when I compare them with the images in the other forum thread.