triple whammy :)

[tr33lo]

any ideas on what the names of these are?
I got the fact one is a fly and one is a weevil


thanks inadvance Jon

[jezlee]

I shall be interested to hear what No1 is .... I'm sure I have a pic of one somewhere, still unidentified!

[Laurence Clemons]

1. Coenosia tigrina (Diptera, Muscidae).
2. A female chironomid (Diptera, Chironomidae).
3. A weevil (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) taken on a fern. Not many weevils are specific to ferns, Syagrius intrudens being one. I have never seen this species and do not know what it looks like. I will look at the picture again later.

[tr33lo]

thanks for the response laurence

I asume that 1. Coenosia tigrina is the latin name and Diptera, Muscidae is the order?

sorry to sound dumb but i would like to get things right

[Laurence Clemons]

Coenosia = Genus
tigrina = species
Diptera = order
Muscidae = family