Thread subject: Diptera.info :: a fly on snow
Posted by olavi on 13-11-2012 12:26
#1
Could anyone help with ID please. Taken on snow in Estonia in October.
Edited by olavi on 13-11-2012 12:34
Posted by Lukasz Mielczarek on 13-11-2012 13:31
#2
Phoridae and probably
Triphleba admirabilis.
Lukasz
Posted by olavi on 14-11-2012 19:16
#3
Thank you very much!
Olavi
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-11-2012 22:44
#4
Olavi, this nice creature should be submited in Gallery.
Lukasz, do you know any source about biology of this species?
Posted by olavi on 15-11-2012 07:43
#5
By the way, I just got an e-mail from Dr. Henry Disney that this is a male of Triphleba flexipalpis Schmitz, 1927.
Olavi
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-11-2012 09:58
#6
Submit it for the Gallery, please.
Posted by Lukasz Mielczarek on 18-11-2012 16:19
#7
My reply was just a guess. I'm not a Phorid expert like Mr. Disney.
Nikita, I really know only that
Triphleba spp. are winter active, recorded on snow.
The fly looks very amazig.
Regards,
Lukasz