Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 2 unknown Tephritidae

Posted by cebe on 13-07-2007 13:22
#1

I found those 2 Tephritidae on a window in Brussels the 23th and the 26th may this year.
Is it possible to identifie those flies without knowing the hostplant?
Thanks,
Bart Hanssens (http://www.cebe.be/

www.cebe.be/upload/inventaires/q_tephritidae23052007.jpg
www.cebe.be/upload/inventaires/q_tephritidae26052007.jpg

Posted by Jan Willem on 13-07-2007 13:28
#2

Hi Bart,

The first one is not a tephritid but a pallopterid: Palloptera umbellatarum.

Jan Willem

Posted by John Smit on 13-07-2007 19:03
#3

And the latter is Rhagoletis alternata

John