Posted by Don Micro on 24-07-2010 16:51
#1
Hello all.
This nematocera was attracted to light in Hasselt, Belgium 23-07-2010.
What I read is Mycetophilidae-tibiae should have long apical bristles but this one clearly does not.
It bears a striking resemblance to the specimen on the picture on the German Mycetophilidae-page of Wikipedia and on the Dutch Wikipedia-page regarding Mycetophilidae. Its filename is
Exechia concinna.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggen
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycetophilidae
Now
Exechia concinna is not listed in www.species.be nor www.nederlandsesoorten.nl so my specimen obviously can't be
E. concinna.
I'll be glad if I know if my specimen is
Exechia or not?
Thanks! :)
Edited by Don Micro on 25-07-2010 03:01
Posted by Don Micro on 24-07-2010 17:06
#3
Thanks Roger. :)
That means the picture of Exechia concinna on Wikipedia is incorrect.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 26-07-2010 16:58
#4
Sadly, it's not unusual to find incorrectly named flies on websites - on the wiki/Muggen site you mention, the chaoborid is a chironomid and the cecidomyiid is a sciarid!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-07-2010 20:15
#5
I already changed some of the pages linking to this exceptional
Exechia. The source site of the 'chaoborid' has many dodgy ID's.