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| Pristurus |
Posted on 27-07-2011 08:56
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 Member Location: Marburg/Germany Posts: 853 Joined: 07.07.10 |
2011-07-23 at the Wollenberg, Hesse, Germany in the grass of a meadow and sucking on flowers of Umbelliferae. Regards, Ingo http://commons.wi...-07-23.ogv Pristurus attached the following image:  [39.05Kb] |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 27-07-2011 20:31
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18976 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Clearly an Eriothrix rufomaculata, which peaks second half of July and August Theo |
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| Pristurus |
Posted on 27-07-2011 22:16
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Member Location: Marburg/Germany Posts: 853 Joined: 07.07.10 |
Thank you, Theo. Indeed these flies are now very common here. Regards, Ingo |
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| Pristurus |
Posted on 27-07-2011 22:38
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Member Location: Marburg/Germany Posts: 853 Joined: 07.07.10 |
Hm one more question: in Fauna Europaea the species name is "Eriothrix rufomaculatus". What is right the male or the female form? Regards, Ingo |
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 27-07-2011 23:28
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Herting in his catalogue of 1984 used the spelling "Eriothrix rufomaculata". Dely-Draskovits (1993) changed the gender of Eriothrix to masculine, and Tschorsnig followed this spelling for the Fauna Europaea. But I heared from Ziegler that Tschorsnig has now accepted the feminine gender of Eriothrix.
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 28-07-2011 20:16
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18976 Joined: 21.07.04 |
'Thrix' is the classic Greek for 'hair' and its gender is female. So classic Greek grammar compels to right ending '-a'. But no doubt Dely-Draskovits used some (in my opinion) weird article of the Code to decide otherwise.... Be my guest to write '-us', but it is bad Classics ! Theo |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 28-07-2011 20:18
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18976 Joined: 21.07.04 |
By the way, rule of thumb Nouns with ending in '-o', '-s', or '-x' are feminine There are exceptions !!! (that is why it is a rule of thum  Theo |
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| Pristurus |
Posted on 29-07-2011 00:41
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Member Location: Marburg/Germany Posts: 853 Joined: 07.07.10 |
My videos are created for use in the different language editions of wikipedia. Media files are stored on commons centrally. So I searched the English wikipedia and found an article titled "Eriothrix rufomaculata". On commons however the species category is called "Eriothrix rufomaculatus". Now in my file description I will use the species name ''E. rufomaculata'' (following your opinion) and the file is categorized as "E. rufomaculatus" (following FaunaEuropaea). Looking to FaunaEuropaea the confusion is going on: The genus contents Eriothrix accolus Kolomiets, 1967 Eriothrix apenninus (Rondani, 1862) Eriothrix argyreatus (Meigen, 1824) Eriothrix inflatus Kolomiets, 1967 Eriothrix micronyx Stein, 1924 Eriothrix monticola (Egger, 1856) Eriothrix prolixa (Meigen, 1824) Eriothrix rohdendorfi Kolomiets, 1967 Eriothrix rufomaculatus (De Geer, 1776) Sometimes male sometimes female, for me it looks very strange.... Hoping somebody will solve the problem on FaunaEuropaea in the future, with best regards Ingo |
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