Help with identifications, field craft and other topics relating to Diptera
Good afternoon All,
I am a new member and I am looking forward to learning more about flies. My main interest lies in Hoverflies and Soldierflies and allies but I am getting more interested in other groups of flies.
Is this Hylemya vagans please? Beds. 13 May 2020.
I have seen this fly before but cannot locate my identification, can someone remind me please.
It was at Holtspur Bottom Nature Reserve today, i recall the larvae is on Ragwort. But incase i am wrong the general habitat is chalk grassland.
thanks
Sue
I hope this is the correct place to post to request an ID - I am very new to Dipterists' Forum. I found a very distinctive small black fly today - red eyes and halters, wing venation reminding me of Lauxiniidae - and have posted it for ID on one of the Facebook groups. It has been suggested that it is most likely to be one of the Platypezidae, the fly's distinctive appearance seeming to suggest Callomyia elegans as a possibility. Looking at the NBN atlas, however, there is only one record of that species here in the UK, the fly being on the Red List. Is it possi
Can anyone help with this Hybomitra from Rye Harbour NR, East Sussex on 13th July? It appears to run through to muhlfeldi but I am not familiar with this species so any pointers would be appreciated
Hi, Philophylla caesio seems like best match based on colour and wing markings. Have I missed a look-alike which is the real ID?
Location has plenty of nettles.
Many thanks!
I found this at Dancers End near Tring, I am not sure at all which group this belongs to but suspect the eyes are distinctive enough to point to an ID.
The fly was small max 8mm, habitat tall grassland including hogweed and marjorum, on chalk.
Would be grateful for any pointers.
Second poor photo only to show general body shape.
Can anyone identify this please?
Does this look ok for P. cunicularia? From Rye Harbour NR, Easy Sussex, 20th May 2020. Thanks
I ran this fly through the scathophagid key and it seems to come out easily enough as C. decipiens, but it is not a species I have come across before and there seem to be very few images on the interweb! Just wondering if anybody with a bit more experience could tell me yay or nay. During drying the femora have flattened and twisted making them look more swollen than they were in life. From 25th April, Rye, East Sussex