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14-05-2010, 06:20 PM
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| | | Small dark winged empid
This is from the same site as the last one I posted, but it's all black & a lot smaller ( WL 7mm ). I think it's Rhamphomyia sp., possibly R.crassiorostris, but there seem to be a lot of similar looking species.
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14-05-2010, 07:48 PM
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| | | Re: Small dark winged empid
Looks like Rhamphomyia to me (s.s., that is - don't want to cause confusion).
Probably something around R.sulcata but would need the specimen to be certain.
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14-05-2010, 08:50 PM
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| | | Re: Small dark winged empid
John, if you had the specimen what would you be looking for to help with ID ? |
15-05-2010, 05:40 AM
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| | | Re: Small dark winged empid
Hi Peter,
Within Rhamphomyia s.s. the sulcata/sulcatella/sulcatina group are characterised by having pale halteres, black spines beneath hind femora, hairy prosternum and front and hind tarsi not particularly bristly. Of the three, sulcata is the common one. Of course, I didn't take any account of these features in my original suggestion - if I did that with every fly-photo on WAB I wouldn't have time to go to work!
Cheers,
John
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15-05-2010, 07:59 AM
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| | | Re: Small dark winged empid
Hello John
I really do appreciate all the trouble you take. We'd be lost without you 
I've had a look & the halteres are pale yellow, the prosternum is hairy, the hind femora have long ventral & posterior spines, but the hind tarsus is quite bristly compared with the mid & front.
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As said, not a certainty.
