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 First Conopidae 2008 - Myopa palliceps (=minor)
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-03-2008 19:21
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Hooray! A new Myopa for me... I think.  Spotted today near Póvoa Dão. Around 6 mm size. I saw about 10 bombyliids, dozens of tachinids (mainly Tachina spp.), Rhamphomyia spp.; etc etc. EDIT 2: Title changed from "First Conopidae 2008 - Awesome Myopa cf. palliceps." to "First Conopidae 2008 - Myopa minor (=palliceps)" EDIT: Title changed from "First Conopidae 2008 - Awesome Myopa sp." to "First Conopidae 2008 - Awesome Myopa cf. palliceps" 
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-03-2008 19:52
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
another photo...
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-03-2008 20:40
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
another shot..
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| javanerkelens |
Posted on 20-03-2008 20:47
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 Member Location: Netherlands Posts: 2962 Joined: 18.10.07 |
I don't now anything about these fly's, but very nice pictures !!! And what a very little and shrunk scutellum. Greatings Joke Edited by javanerkelens on 20-03-2008 20:55 |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 20-03-2008 21:21
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14099 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Jorge! <Sigh...> We have temperatures barely above 0 ?C here, with storm and snow (predicted a "White Easter" with snowdrifts), and the only Diptera I saw today were some very small Chironomids at our house wall and some Sylvicolas at my banana baits... The only other insects I only found in the house: Anthrenus verbasci (Dermestid beetles) and Tinea pellionella (bagworm moth larvae) - both like our cats' hairs... 
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| Erik Nielsen |
Posted on 20-03-2008 22:14
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Member Location: Near Silkeborg Denmark Posts: 153 Joined: 23.12.07 |
I think that in the secomd picture you must have pointed a gun towards its head and say "hands up", and in the fourth picture it is praying for its life Happy Easter Erik |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-03-2008 02:07
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
javanerkelens wrote: I don't now anything about these fly's, but very nice pictures !!! And what a very little and shrunk scutellum. Greatings Joke Thanks!  This Myopa must be really an old fly. I spotted this fly using averted vision among the vegetation. (I'm an amateur astronomer and I used to use many times this vision to see pale globular and open clusters and enhance more stars). This fly was very near in one nice place (precisely where I spotted the famous fly acrocerid Cyrtus gibbus) and in spite of the very windy day, in that place due the fact is protected by the many trees around, I could spot in 2 hours about over 200 flies easily.  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-03-2008 02:14
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Juergen Peters wrote: Hello, Jorge! <Sigh...> We have temperatures barely above 0 ?C here, with storm and snow (predicted a "White Easter" with snowdrifts), and the only Diptera I saw today were some very small Chironomids at our house wall and some Sylvicolas at my banana baits... The only other insects I only found in the house: Anthrenus verbasci (Dermestid beetles) and Tinea pellionella (bagworm moth larvae) - both like our cats' hairs... I saw the Anthrenus yesterday too. Tineidae larvae are among ones that can eat human hair too..  on the final stage of a human decomposition... Here the Easter will be very rainy. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-03-2008 02:17
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Erik Nielsen wrote: I think that in the secomd picture you must have pointed a gun towards its head and say "hands up", and in the fourth picture it is praying for its life Happy Easter Erik I thought (almost) precisely the same. you can see it here .Boa P?scoa. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-03-2008 02:20
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Myopa dorsalis? Or Myopa fasciata? Hyaline wings without any dark markings. The scutellum is dull reddish and the abdomen reddish brown, resembling in some way a Sicus. So I think this can be a Myopa dorsalis, according to the Veen's keys... but I'm waiting for Stuke to confirm this or no.. |
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| jhstuke |
Posted on 21-03-2008 13:49
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Member Location: Leer, Germany Posts: 147 Joined: 06.06.07 |
It could be Myopa palliceps (=minor). The species is known to Portugal and the flight time fits to what I know. Jens-Hermann |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-03-2008 17:37
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Thank you Stuke. I will add this to the gallery very soon (in summer...). |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 24-03-2008 16:21
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
today I found about 5 Myopa. Even in a very cloudy day. It seems that they are very common. One species can be new for me. More later, I will show the photos. Today I spotted my first Bibionidae, my first Asilidae (!), also my first Phasia and my first Pipunculidae ( I saw 4 pipunculids today on a lemon tree!), and a spectacular goniini fly that outshines Baumhaeuria microps and about 4/5 new tachinids. Also I found a very strange tick.. all black. Last Thursday I found my very first Sialidae ever. (ok, these last 2 are not dipters ). Is it possible to create a log section where we can create our field log?? It would be interesting... |
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