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Possibly Suillia gigantea? =>yes (male)
Caillou
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Posted on 30-01-2013 19:53
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Hello,
My first thread so please tell me if I do anything wrong, and my apologies if it is the case!
The following fly looks like to be a Suillia gigantea if I refer to the criteria of the golden hair below the sternites; can you confirm this or tell me what it could be instead?
And if it is a gigantea, would it be useful that I add it to the gallery? I have not been able to find any photo of it.
Thank you for your help!

Date:23/9/2012
Location:Vevey, Switzerland
Habitat:a little wood of old trees
Size:10mm approx.
Caillou attached the following image:


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Edited by Caillou on 30-01-2013 22:00
 
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yes, it is.
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Very nice are also the spines and bristles on the middle femur. I like this species a lot. I have some collected in Hungary, but also in France. I received a nice series from Romania.
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BTW, welcome on diptera.info!! ;-)
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It is of course a male!
Note pls, that in the female abdominal sternites are sparsely haired only, and without such golden hairs as in the male specimen. Andrzej Smile
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences
 
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Thank you very much, Ruud and Andrzej, for the confirmation and explanations! (I thought the golden hair applied to both sexes)
Could you please just confirm if it is ok to put the photo in the gallery?
Thank you again!
 
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I think a good idea.
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