Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small, black fly (04.09.12) --> Aulacigaster sp.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-09-2012 06:01
#1
Hello!
On first glance I thought, this 2.5 mm fly last Tuesday night at our wintergarden (northwest Germany) was one of the usual darkish Drosophilidae. But looking at it on the PC I now think, it is a different family. But which...?
Edited by Juergen Peters on 19-01-2016 19:10
Posted by Roger Thomason on 07-09-2012 06:13
#2
Looks like Piophilidae.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-09-2012 06:52
#3
Roger Thomason wrote:
Looks like Piophilidae.
Thanks a lot, Roger! I don't find that family very often. Only had
Mycetaulus bipunctatus once...
Posted by Roger Thomason on 07-09-2012 07:28
#4
Juergen Peters wrote:
Roger Thomason wrote:
Looks like Piophilidae.
Thanks a lot, Roger! I don't find that family very often. Only had
Mycetaulus bipunctatus once...
You just need to have lots of cats crapping in your garden Juergen, then you will see plenty. They seem to like that...;) Or otters,I've got a big dog otter living under my shed again...dread to think what size it;s going to be dropping ...
BTW..Hope this doesn't put you off your breakfast...:P
Regards...Roger
PS; I can round up some of my neighbour's cats and send them to you [before the otter eats them]..if you want...[Free of charge] :P
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-09-2012 08:28
#5
Hmm, I'd have said
Periscelis. ;)
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 07-09-2012 14:14
#7
What about
Aulacigaster?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 07-09-2012 14:34
#8
I'd say Aulacigastridae ยป Aulacigaster as well.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-09-2012 15:57
#9
Aw, I have been sticking my head into sphaerocerid matters too much the last few weeks. I meant
Aulacigaster but that frontal lobe of mine slipped. ;)
Posted by Roger Thomason on 07-09-2012 16:25
#10
Well I don't know what to say...for once ;)
Still you could fill several pages with links to the ones I've had wrong....
Seems an awkward mind and hard study sometimes just isn't enough...
http://www.dipter...ost_215109
It was suggested recently that I was in need of a holiday....
http://www.dipter...ost_215573
You any good with a paintbrush Paul? Plenty of fresh air..wind...a little bit of sunshine maybe, the scaffolding isn't too high :D
Edited by Roger Thomason on 07-09-2012 16:32
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-09-2012 19:52
#11
Sorry, have enough reconstructing to do around here...
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-01-2016 19:09
#12
Hello,
seems that I haved missed all the last replies on this thread, sorry. So I stuck with
Aulacigaster sp.. It's a new family for me. :)