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 Conopidae - Psycocephala cf. lacera
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2007 23:10
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Hi * locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL * date - 2007.08.19 * size - 6 mm (medium fly) * habitat - open land * substrate - on Mentha sp. flowers. This is Psycocephala sp. Which one? EDIT---> Title changed from "Conopidae - Psycocephala sp. which one?" to "Conopidae - Psycocephala chrysorrhoea" and then finally to "Conopidae - Psycocephala cf. lacera" jorgemotalmeida attached the following image:  [191.34Kb] Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 14-09-2007 22:44 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2007 23:13
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
other view...
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-08-2007 23:15
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-08-2007 10:21
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
this seems to be no easy.  I just know to say which is cannot be. P. nigra and P. rufipes are discarded. But the problem is that I don?t know how is the degree of variation for these species.  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-08-2007 12:58
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
I have doubts in this one as well. Now it seems for me to be a Conops. (seeing wing venation) If this confirms, can this to be C. flavifrons? Flavus is yellow in Latin. Yellow (totally) frons. |
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| Gerard Pennards |
Posted on 22-08-2007 15:08
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 Member Location: Amersfoort Posts: 1914 Joined: 07.06.04 |
Hello Jorge, on your first picture it looks like the animal has the silvery stripe on the side of the thorax, and that would make it Physocephala chrysorrhoea! Greetings, Greetings, Gerard Pennards |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-08-2007 18:27
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
So I have 3 specimens of P. chrysorrhoea. Two small (about 6 mm - 7 mm) and one much more bigger one.  All of them show some variation in the colour, specially in tergites. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 22-08-2007 19:40
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19111 Joined: 21.07.04 |
This is again chrysorhoea. The difference should be clear by now. Theo |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-08-2007 19:49
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Yes. It is clear like water (not polluted lol). |
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| jhstuke |
Posted on 31-08-2007 21:09
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Member Location: Leer, Germany Posts: 147 Joined: 06.06.07 |
It is a P. cf lacera. Jens-Hermann |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 01-09-2007 00:15
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Jens-Hermann. Please provide the characters for P. lacera.. I have the specimen. It would be great to have final confirmation and the inevitable question... Why not P. chrysorrhoea? |
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