Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stratiomyidae
Posted by Isidro on 05-06-2011 15:07
#1
Yesterday in high Pyrenees, Spain, near cascades and forests.
Different individuals but, I suppose, same species.
Can the species be identified?
Thanks
Posted by tristram on 05-06-2011 15:18
#2
Looks as if it has at least 5 spines on the back of its scutellum so it could be a
Beris sp.
Edited by tristram on 05-06-2011 15:19
Posted by Isidro on 06-06-2011 19:34
#3
Thanks Tristam (I replied but the answer is missing). I hope that somebody can tell me what species of Beris it can be!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-06-2011 11:13
#4
Top image might well be
Actina chalybea, the other two I suspect to be
Beris geniculata with the female in the middle image and the male in the bottom one.
Posted by Isidro on 08-06-2011 16:16
#5
Different species? Oh! That is surprising. The top one is a female and the other two is a male (same individual). By the inflated tarsi of last leg pair I suspected that are the same fly. I'll update my files with Actina chlaybea and Beris geniculata. Thanks!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 08-06-2011 19:56
#6
Sorry, I mixed them up (male - female). Concerning the
Actina: males also have separated eyes and I do not know how wide they must be separated to either male or female.