Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Clusiidae sp.
Posted by Ben Hamers on 20-05-2006 17:36
#1
Hello,
I compared this fly with Nikita's pictures
( http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1670 ) and mine doesn't seem to have this dark parts on the femora (Nikita's nailed fly has neither).
Is that of any importance or could it be the same species ?
I saw the animal a week ago, near Heerlen.
Ben
Edited by Ben Hamers on 21-05-2012 21:03
Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-05-2006 19:43
#2
Another
Clusiodes. I will get on to it tonight or tomorrow morning.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2006 05:52
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2006 05:56
#3
I cannot get further than subgenus
Clusiaria with any certainty. Possibly
C. (Clusiaria) apicalis or
C. (Clusiaria) geomyzina (of which only the first was recorded from the Netherlands) but a dorsal view is necessary (for example for the amount of clouding on the wing) but I cannot even rule out
C. (Clusiaria) ruficollis, as the thorax is not as deep black as in the specimens depicted
HERE.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2006 06:04
Posted by Jan Willem on 21-05-2006 14:01
#4
Hi Ben and Paul,
It looks like the dorsal suface of the thorax is partly "rusty brown". This would indicate that we are not dealing with
apicalis/
geomyzina, but with
ruficollis, which both should have the thorax black (appart from white stripe in front of the wing base). I have to admit though that in comparison with the specimens of
ruficollis that I have seen, it is extremely dark.
I suppose you didn't collect the specimen, Ben?
Jan Willem
Posted by Ben Hamers on 21-05-2006 21:29
#5
Hello Jan Willem and Paul,
I didn't collect the fly but I can offer a more or less dorsal view that shows the, according to you both, for Clusiodes ruficollis typical brown coloured thorax.
I saw the 3 mm-fly on a dead tree trunk near a little stream (Eyserbeek).
Many thanks to you both,
Ben
Edited by Ben Hamers on 21-05-2012 21:05
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-05-2006 21:32
#6
That settles it:
C. ruficollis. :D