Small fly stack, blue/green eyes
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Small fly stack, blue/green eyes
I've no idea what sort of fly this is, its about 5mm long, has bluey-green eyes, quite thin body - about the shape of a small chipolata! Back of the thorax is metalic green.
I should really try to do an overview shot when it's an unknown species shouldn't I?!
Stack of approx 150 images with Nikon 10x CF objective. OM bellows at somewhere around 1/2 extension iirc. Aligned in CZM and stacked in Tufuse..
I should really try to do an overview shot when it's an unknown species shouldn't I?!
Stack of approx 150 images with Nikon 10x CF objective. OM bellows at somewhere around 1/2 extension iirc. Aligned in CZM and stacked in Tufuse..
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Re: Small fly stack, blue/green eyes
lauriek wrote: I should really try to do an overview shot when it's an unknown species shouldn't I?!
Actually, you may need several, showing different views/parts of the body, to give the best chance of recognition.
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Yes, that would be very useful, although from the antennal structure (typical Orthorapha antenna) everything points towards Empididae (dance flies). What irritates me, though, is the metallic green pronotum you mentioned in combination with a "chipolata"-shaped abdomen. That sounds like the genus Rhamphomyia, but I have never seen any green species (?). OTOH - I am not really a diptera expert.lauriek wrote: I should really try to do an overview shot when it's an unknown species shouldn't I?!
What we see here is definitely the labrum. However, if my assumption that this is a dance fly is correct, then there should be a kind of "proboscis" hidden underneath the labrum, because Empididae are predators.Harold Gough wrote:I am unsure of dipteran anatomy but what has been refered to as the proboscis would be the labrum in other orders.
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My taxonomic instinct told me they were important at some level. Easy to see too!rovebeetle wrote:That's better, now at least the family is clear: Stratiomyidae (Soldier Flies), but to tell a genus would be mere speculation - for a non-dipterist like me.
Very characteristic are those thorn-like structures on the post-scutellum which gave the family its name.
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