Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Help needed

Posted by kurt on 30-05-2022 19:35
#1

Body 3-4 mm with odd face. Family and genus?
Photo from 30 May 2022 Kramfors 62 N, E 17 Ã…ngermanland, Sweden.

Thanks for your help in advance

Regards
Kurt Holmqvist

Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-05-2022 20:56
#2

The odd face is because the ptilinum (the sac behind the face which is inflated to prize off the puparium lid) has not fully retracted. I think this is a muscid - Coenosia or close.

Posted by kurt on 02-06-2022 19:28
#3

Thanks for your help Tony
Kurt Holm,qvist