Identification of Diptera (flies, mosquitoes, etc.)

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20.12.2011 17:12, amara

I think it's either phorida or ephydrida. It's hard for me from this angle. And the size is difficult to estimate. I'm leaning towards Forida, most likely I was looking for some rotten stuff or a corpse there. They are like that. Some forids live in coffins, 2 meters underground (imago!) they can crawl in...

Thank you so I don't get confused, this isn't from the Sphaeroceridae?

I thought it looked like these (thickened first two segments on the hind legs?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Limosina.silvatica.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copromyza.equina.jpg

And yet, they met for a kilometer in the snow on the road that I have been walking for many years.

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22.12.2011 8:57, amara

Boris, unfortunately, I'm not even close to an expert on them - I just assumed that in such cases it's akin to suicide. But it looks like you're right - very similar to the photo. Spherocerids, perhaps. One saprophages are very different.

Because of this, I registered on dipter.info (that's what curiosity brings

you to ) I marked up the photo, and I was told that it was from Spherocerids, and possibly Crumomyia (syn. Cypsela, Borborus).

Returning to this winter-thaw message from 2011, I want to add pictures of a very similar fly, the most popular now in Losino-Ostrovsky Park in Moscow, flying and mating over any water surface.

This post was edited by amara - 16.05.2013 08: 20

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