Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Trixoscelis cf frontalis

Posted by hedy2411 on 27-01-2012 23:38
#1

Who knows the name of this small fly...?
Found 23-6-2011 in Zeist, Holland

Edited by hedy2411 on 10-02-2012 21:36

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 28-01-2012 11:56
#2

Trixoscelis sp. I think.

Posted by Andrzej on 28-01-2012 13:46
#3

Really a Trixoscelis.
I've seen this pic yesterday, but I was waiting for Ruud ... :|

female of Trixoscelis frontalis ;)

Posted by rvanderweele on 28-01-2012 19:06
#4

Hahaha, very nice, Andrzej, but I have to confess that I saw it was a Trixoscelis, but I hardly collected any, knowing well how closely related they are to the Heleomyzidae. I collected some in Hungary, but I gave them all to the museum in Budapest.

Posted by Andrzej on 28-01-2012 19:45
#5

Ruud, are you sure that my ID is correct? :o

Posted by rvanderweele on 28-01-2012 19:56
#6

come on, Andrzej, you ask me? I know bloody well you are interested in this family. In fact I had already in mind that this kind of genera, which I will collect on Crete, I have to keep for you!

Posted by Andrzej on 28-01-2012 20:13
#7

hmm, no comments more ...

I give the short diagnosis for the female of T. canescens, published in Dipteron last year:

Wings with costa and subcostal area including first longitudinal cell blackish darkened, greyish mesonotum with two brown median stripes between the dorsocentrals, reaching scutellum. Female abdomen with a broad and shiny dark brown median band, gray laterally ;)

Posted by rvanderweele on 28-01-2012 20:41
#8

but I guess you are interested in this group, when I collect them on Crete? I do not have plans to collect them myself.

Posted by Jan Willem on 31-01-2012 11:32
#9

I thought it was difficult to distinguish the females of T. frontalis for T. similis. Andrzej, could you please explain how you see that you are dealing with a female of T. frontalis and not a female of T. similis?

Posted by Andrzej on 09-02-2012 11:20
#10

Jan Willem is right ! Better to name this picture as Trixoscelis cf. frontalis !

Posted by hedy2411 on 10-02-2012 21:35
#11

OK, I'll make note of it...
Thank you Andrzej!

Regards,
Hedy