Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Yellow spotted Lauxaniid (16.07.11) --> Sapromyza (Sapromyzosoma)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-07-2011 19:10
#1
Hello!
Sapromyz(oso)ma? About 4 mm, at a hedge (northwest Germany).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 19-07-2011 19:17
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-07-2011 19:13
#2
Sapromyza (Sapromyzosoma)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-07-2011 19:17
#3
Paul Beuk wrote:
Sapromyza (Sapromyzosoma)
Thanks, Paul! I had hoped, the spots qualify it for a special species (mostly I find them without spots), but that seems not the case...
Posted by Mark-uk on 20-07-2011 10:45
#4
As it has 6 spots some will say it's
sexpunctata. but it could also be
opaca. The lustre of the thorax could point to
sexpunctata or that could be the flash making in look more glossy than it really is.
Counting spots on
Sapromyza should be used a guide only.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-07-2011 20:05
#5
Hello, Mark!
Mark-uk wrote:
As it has 6 spots some will say it's sexpunctata. but it could also be opaca. The lustre of the thorax could point to sexpunctata or that could be the flash making in look more glossy than it really is.
Comparing it with
S. sexpunctata in the gallery I saw that one pair of spots seemed to be bigger in that species, so I thought it must be some other.
Counting spots on Sapromyza should be used a guide only.
Thanks. I doen't have a key for that family/genus and did not know if there were several similar spotted species.