Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Syrphidae?
Posted by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 13:32
#1
there were lots of these tiny flies near the lamp last night, they are kind of Drosophila-sized I guess and tended to run rather than fly away from me.
I'm guessing all 3 are the same species....
This is as close as I could get as they move so fast!
Edited by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 13:32
Posted by tristram on 30-10-2011 14:25
#2
Not a Syrphid.
I have some photos of flies just like the 3rd one but I have not yet managed to ID them properly. I thought they might be Lonchopteridae but that was just a guess.
Posted by Sara21392 on 30-10-2011 15:07
#3
And I guess Opomyzidae!? ;)
Posted by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 15:11
#4
Sara21392 wrote:
And I guess Opomyzidae!? ;)
Thanks Sara-Opomyza germinationis was one of the matches I saw in the book but the colour is different. I guess there are a few different species in that family?
Posted by Roger Thomason on 30-10-2011 18:01
#5
They all look like Drosophilidae. Bottom one looks like Scaptomyza pallida or graminum but I think your images are too small to make anything of...have you tried cropping closer Larry :|.
Posted by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 18:56
#6
Roger Thomason wrote:
They all look like Drosophilidae. Bottom one looks like Scaptomyza pallida or graminum but I think your images are too small to make anything of...have you tried cropping closer Larry :|.
Too blurry to crop any tighter Roger. I was shooting in near dark and they move quick up this close
Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-10-2011 20:24
#7
Apparently only two rows of acrostichal setae on a darker median strip so probably
Scaptomyza pallida.
Posted by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 22:31
#8
Paul Beuk wrote:
Apparently only two rows of acrostichal setae on a darker median strip so probably Scaptomyza pallida.
Thanks Paul. now I hate to sound stupid, I know that setae are fine hairs but acrostichal?
Posted by Larry Shone on 30-10-2011 23:12
#10
Cheers Roge. Another species nailed then!