Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Empis on Ranunculus?

Posted by cebe on 22-05-2012 11:19
#1
I saw lots of those little flies on Ranunculus in Brussels last week.
Is there a specialized species on those flowers?

bru.observations.be/fotonew/9/3349009.jpg

details: http://bru.observ...w/68651848
thanks,
Bart

Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-05-2012 18:12
#2
Too few useful details are visible for an ID and it might even be a teneral... Though Empis is most likely I cannot rule out Rhamphomyia (Aclonempis).