Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small black metallic fly, unknown family

Posted by Juergen Peters on 09-06-2008 17:47
#1

Hello!

I have no idea on this one. May-02, at a hedge, northwest Germany. Size about 3 mm.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 09-06-2008 21:21
#2

Syrphidae, Lejogaster ? (3 mm is small).

Posted by Juergen Peters on 09-06-2008 22:51
#3

Hello, Stephane!

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Syrphidae, Lejogaster ? (3 mm is small).


Thanks! Maybe 3.5-4 mm, but it was really very small. Not bigger than the tiny black Lonchaeids, that I first thought it could be.