Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Keroplatidae > Platyura marginata (male)
Posted by Stephen R on 15-10-2010 12:41
#1
7+mm, Yorkshire [EDIT: actually Lancashire - see below] UK, 29 May 2009.
Would I be right to label this as male Keroplatidae? Any idea on genus?
Edited by Stephen R on 16-10-2010 12:38
Posted by oxycera on 15-10-2010 13:35
#2
I think you're in the right Family. I would have to check my collection to narrow it down.
Posted by Stephen R on 15-10-2010 13:44
#3
Thanks oxycera; the family is great to be going on with!
Posted by oxycera on 16-10-2010 06:34
#4
Mmm, nothing sems to fit really. I wonder if its one of the larger Sciarids?
Posted by xylo on 16-10-2010 07:26
#5
No it is not! Compare carefully wing veins with typical sciarid wing. R4 runs into R1:
Platyura marginata (male) the only western Palaearctic species...
so long,
xylo
Posted by Stephen R on 16-10-2010 10:11
#6
Many thanks xylo and oxycera!
Posted by oxycera on 16-10-2010 11:20
#7
Stephen, do you have a locality for this specimen?
It's a species I've never found.
Cheers,
John
Posted by Stephen R on 16-10-2010 12:36
#8
Now I look more carefully John, I see it was not Yorkshire (Grass Wood in Wharfedale) but the next day in Moor Piece Reserve, Bashall Eaves near Clitheroe. It's mixed birch and youngish oak on very wet ground (with pine on the drier bits) and there's plenty of dead wood lying around and lots of fungi. If you fancy coming over some time, I'll take you there. Send me a PM.