Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dead Antho
Posted by Roger Thomason on 25-08-2010 11:22
#1
Found on kitchen worktop...size 3-4mm. ID'able?
Posted by Roger Thomason on 25-08-2010 11:22
#2
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Posted by Roger Thomason on 25-08-2010 11:23
#3
Darkened wings..
Posted by Roger Thomason on 25-08-2010 11:24
#4
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Posted by javanerkelens on 25-08-2010 17:29
#5
Looks more Hebecnema umbratica to me....
Lets wait if Stephane can confirm
Joke
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 29-08-2010 12:11
#6
I don't think it is an
Hebecnema. With these big cheeks I would rather say
Phaonia. I can't see correctly the chaetotaxy of legs and thorax.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-08-2010 21:17
#7
Hi Joke & Stephane
Thanks for looking at this and for your differing opinions. Keeps life interesting. Sorry about the quality of the pics ( dark fly which is a bummer to try and pick out any features).
I've taken a few more which might assist, but with the legs in the position they are in it is hard to get a clear view of the required bits.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-08-2010 21:18
#8
Dunno if this helps?
Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-08-2010 21:20
#9
Last one for now...any other views by request :P
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 29-08-2010 22:27
#10
Hmm, it must be
Hebecnema after all. No
Phaonia bristle, the frons is flat with a prominent ocelar tubercle and the genae don't seem so high on these lighter pictures (just in the first picture, but it is probably due to the angle of view). So I would agree with Joke with the suggestion of
H. umbratica. Sorry.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-08-2010 23:33
#11
Absolutely no reason to apologise Stephane, (not very often that you are wrong with your determinations) especially considering the quality of the original set of images. The second set were taken with a ring flash and lightened a bit in Photoshop...still, not good but a poor subject to try and photograph.
Joke...what can I say that won't cause us both embarrassment :D.
H. umbratica is an unrecorded species up here.
Regards Roger...Exile from Fb. :|