Showing posts with label #drosophilidae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #drosophilidae. Show all posts

Monday, 9 March 2020

Cullaloe LNR weekend flies

Some nice flies at the weekend, even in a small sample

Palloptera scutellata (Rush Flutter Fly) was beaten out of spruce on Saturday - new to me and to the reserve.


On Sunday the chironomid Anatopynia plumipes (Fries) was swept over the spillway.




Also new to the reserve were the muscid  Coenosia lacteipennis and the fruit fly Drosophila subobscura

Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Leucophenga maculata, Dalgety Bay, 2018

I've had this on a pin from Dalgety Bay for going on two years. When I came across it while scouring boxes of "the unexamined" I couldn't remember catching it and can't believe I didn't give it more time since it's a bit "fancy". Maybe something else interesting happened at that time and it got bypassed.

When I keyed it to Drosophilidae I was thinking, "Yeah, right". Its wing length is 4mm! Well, would you believe it - it is in fact the "monster" drosophilid Leucophenga maculata. There aren't many records on NBN and none in Scotland, though who can guess how much that means. Certainly wasn't on the Fife list (though it will be on the new one!)