Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ulidiidae: Euxesta pechumani by Nosferatumyia
Posted by Isidro on 03-08-2007 12:11
#1
Yesterday in my garden (Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain" I put a dead sea snail in the table (I work in a seafood factory). I go back some minutes after and in the snail was a big sarcophagid an this one small, beautiful, painted-winged fly.
The fly go out of the snail and go to a next cacti, and here, it began to move the wings always, the wings never be quiet, maybe two times in 3 seconds.
The fly sizes about 2-3 mm long and about 5-6 mm from wing-tip to wing-tip.
Can you help me?
Thanks ;)
Edited by Isidro on 09-09-2008 09:42
Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-08-2007 12:34
#2
Ulidiidae, probably
Ulidia.
Posted by Isidro on 03-08-2007 14:16
#3
Thanks Paul!
Can be the species recognized?
Posted by Isidro on 05-08-2007 19:25
#4
Nobody can approach to species level?
Posted by Isidro on 06-08-2007 16:16
#5
uploading this post...
Posted by Isidro on 07-08-2007 07:42
#6
Can be U. apicalis? Is the only that I know...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-08-2007 08:19
#7
Sorry, I don't think I have a recent key to help you out. The marking in the middle of the wing is larger than illustrated for
U. apicalis by Seguy (for what it's worth), so maybe another species.
Posted by Isidro on 07-08-2007 10:05
#8
OK, thanks ;)
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 08-01-2008 11:45
#9
Gentlemen/women, this is certainly
Euxesta pechumani Curran 1938, a fly, which was discovered in Mediterranea in 1921 by Mario Bezzi, who misidentified it as nitidiventris; it was actually described only 16 years after from its country of origin (TL New York City!). The fly is rather common from the Azores to Turkmenistan now and is associated with old elms; also common on poplar logs (as we collected it in Ioannina, Greece), etc.
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 11-01-2008 21:48
Posted by Isidro on 09-09-2008 09:41
#10
Wow! Thanks a lot Valery, I don't saw this answer until now,