Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown fly
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 03-05-2013 07:49
#1
Hello
This 5-6 mm fly sat in the grass (Garden, Stuttgart, Germany). Does anybody have an idea what be this could?
01. May 2013
Regards
Andreas
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 03-05-2013 07:49
#2
Pic 2
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 03-05-2013 13:50
#3
Leucophora obtusa?
Posted by javanerkelens on 03-05-2013 14:21
#4
Leucophora obtusa has the hindfemur with numerous long fine hairs and this seems not to be the case on your specimen.
I am more thinking about
Leucophora personata(Coll.).
I think I can see some little hairs on the notopleural depression...
Maybe you can make an crop of this area (area around prealar, humeri..)
Johanna
Edited by javanerkelens on 03-05-2013 14:22
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 03-05-2013 14:34
#5
Okay, you mean this area?
Posted by javanerkelens on 03-05-2013 14:58
#6
Indeed the right crop!
But now I don't see the little hairs on the notopleural depression, so....maybe we can't see the long hairs on the hindfemur on your photos.
Prealar seems long and the gena seems to have rows of upwardly directed setae....... indeed maybe
L. obtusa.
To be honest....I find
Leucophora always terrible to ID from photos, I always have doubts..:(
Johanna
Edited by javanerkelens on 03-05-2013 15:01
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 05-05-2013 06:06
#7
Hi Johanna,
thank you very much for your explanations. I leave it as
Leucophora cf. obtusa.
Regards
Andreas