Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae: Ensina?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-09-2007 23:30
#1
Hello!
This only 2.5 mm long fly visited
Leucanthemum vulgare flowers on a meadow near a forest yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany). It resembles the
Ensina sonchi in the gallery, but has dark wing markings. Same genus, other species?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-09-2007 23:31
#2
Other picture.
Posted by Kahis on 23-09-2007 09:17
#3
E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-09-2007 12:43
#4
Kahis wrote:
E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.
Many thanks, Kahis! As I have seen meanwhile that is also the only species here in Germany.
Posted by John Smit on 23-09-2007 15:05
#5
It's indeed E. sonchi. There's only one Ensina here in Europe, there are two other species in the western Palearctic, one that is endemic to the Canary isles and Madeira: E. decisa and one endemic to the Azore: E. azorica.
John
Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-09-2007 18:41
#6
John Smit wrote:
It's indeed E. sonchi. There's only one Ensina here in Europe, there are two other species in the western Palearctic, one that is endemic to the Canary isles and Madeira: E. decisa and one endemic to the Azore: E. azorica.
Thanks, too, John! I never saw that fly here before.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-10-2007 20:52
#7
Kahis wrote:
E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.
Today I've got a female :) - also with dark wing pattern:
