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Culicidae: Culiseta fumipennis? [No. Ochlerotatus caspius]
Are these two Culiseta fumipennis? Both from a damp meadow just south of Leicester.
Clusiidae sp?
Hello,
I have keyed this fly out to Clusiidae, using Oosterbroek. From there I attempted to get further with Stubbs (1982), but I'm not really convinced by either determination and I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction please?
Found on 2020-11-22 in a field on young crop in North Shropshire, not far from manure heap.
- Body length ~ 8mm.
- Cannot see any spots on wings. R4+5 not forked. Haltere orange. Vein Sc complete; separate from R1 and does not meet costa near R1.
Is this tephritis divisa?
Hi, Found this little fly sitting on a newly-delivered parcel. Working through the tephritids in the Diptera.info gallery, it looks like tephritis divisa, but I'd really welcome confirmation before I irecord it. Not a lovely picture, but I think the wing patterns are pretty clear.
Spilogona marina?
Hi,
Tipula confusa?
Tiny fly, maybe Dolichopodidae
This fly is only 1mm long, and looks like a dolichopodid to me, but doesn't seem to match the descriptions for the only really tiny dolis that I am aware of. So maybe it isn't a doli, or maybe there are tiny dolis that I'm not aware of (which is very likely!). Does anyone recognise it? (From the New Forest in August.)
Dryomyza anilis
Can anyone clarify Myopites apicatus vs M. inulaedysentericae
Back in July, I found a lovely little gall fly on a patch of common fleabane, and ID'd as Myopites apicatus (using diptera.info galleries).