Posted by Juergen Peters on 24-05-2005 04:00
#5
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
I am afraid that size does not really matter much. The only 'rule' I can think of is that the largest ones usally are Empis but after you get to the slightly smaller ones to the real small ones it can be either genus.
Yes, another
Empis I regularly find here, is rather small and fragile:
Empis stercorea (but otherwise not to confuse with another species). At the beginning I found it hard to believe that this should be the same genus as the large and strong
E. tesselata.