Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophagidae Nyctia halterata? female
Posted by blowave on 26-12-2010 01:00
#1
Hi!
There's only pics of males of this in the gallery, is this correct? I'm sure it was a small fly maybe 4mm, but I haven't marked the size. It moved in a jerking fashion while it licked up whatever there was on the leaf.
11th June 2010, my garden near Lincoln UK.
2 pics.
Janet :)
Posted by blowave on 26-12-2010 01:01
#2
pic 2
Posted by ChrisR on 26-12-2010 02:08
#3
Looks OK to me :)
Posted by blowave on 26-12-2010 02:15
#4
Thanks Chris! I'll put one in the gallery, not sure which is best. The first looks good but the second pic shows the legs better.
Posted by ChrisR on 26-12-2010 02:22
#5
Hmm, yeah hard to say really - they both show the salient bits though - the way that the median vein is strongly concave after the bend and the dark costal part ... a better photo might show the absence of subscutellum but then I doubt you'd get the rest in ;)
Posted by blowave on 26-12-2010 02:41
#6
I got another pic 3 days later, is this better? It was difficult enough to take decent shots of without getting the subscutellum! :S