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Posted by picotverd on 15-03-2008 02:01

This photo was taken yesterday near -180 km- Barcelona about 115 meters... Asilid? Any idea? Thank you!

Edited by picotverd on 28-08-2010 22:44

Posted by Xespok on 15-03-2008 07:48

An Asilid with such a proboscis? An interesting fly, but I doubt it is a Dioctria.

Posted by phil withers on 15-03-2008 14:14

Looks like Lampromyia (Vermilionidae)

Posted by phil withers on 15-03-2008 19:11

I have now looked at Stuckenberg's key, and think it is certain that this is L. iberica, which he said (in 1998) was "rare in collections, specimens date from more than half a century ago". So, nice to see it's still around...go back and collect another one for me !:D

Posted by picotverd on 15-03-2008 22:49

Thank you very much to all! I did not collected because i am just a nature photographer.

Posted by picotverd on 16-03-2008 18:47

Should i move the post to general diptera? and how, deleting?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-03-2008 20:01

it is Vermileonidae. Lampromyia!!!! luck you! I'm trying to find this one since 2006. :|

Posted by phil withers on 17-03-2008 23:01

I forgot to add that I think this deserves to go in the gallery.

Posted by crex on 17-03-2008 23:26

picotverd wrote:
Should i move the post to general diptera? and how, deleting?

Only Paul Beuk can move threads, so when he get's a minute to spare ...

Posted by picotverd on 18-03-2008 09:39

#10

I will try to come back and take better photos, and try to find a copula... but these days are very windy...

Posted by picotverd on 18-03-2008 22:59

#11

Today i went back and could find just one, and he was holding his own leg must be! Have you seen this before? How did he missed the two missing legs?

Posted by picotverd on 18-03-2008 23:04

#12

I don't know how to include all photos in an only post so i do it separately:

Posted by picotverd on 18-03-2008 23:09

#13

Although i have problems with my macro flash this fly is easily to take photos because you can get very close to it and doesn't move!
I have rotated this photo.
The spec was not collected.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-03-2008 01:16

#14

possibly a predator that attacked this Lampromyia.

Posted by phil withers on 19-03-2008 18:12

#15

3 possibilities: it's not it's own leg (this is after all a predator !); the hind legs were somehow damaged at hatching (the specimen is very teneral - compare the colouring of the previous photos) and any meal is better than none; or escaped predation but hung on to leg hoping to glue it back on (must find some tree resin...)

Posted by picotverd on 28-03-2008 20:16

#16

Hi, today sunny but very windy i took some photos, i think she was laying eggs...

Posted by picotverd on 28-03-2008 20:25

#17

But may be it was an emerged new fly because it looks like very fresh...
Anyway the fly was near these hole-tramps: i introduced an ant and about 10 seconds something -have you seen the film Dune- happened or appeared and the ant is sorrounded by sand... very impressive...

Edited by picotverd on 28-03-2008 20:26

Posted by phil withers on 28-03-2008 23:43

#18

This will be the larval habitat...mini Shai-hulud !

Posted by phil withers on 31-03-2008 23:53

#20

Worth preserving: I'm not sure the larva has ever been described.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 01-04-2008 00:02

#21

here you can see another Vermileonidae larvae. Not sure about the genus: if Vermileo or Lampromyia.
http://diptera.in...d_id=10535

Posted by picotverd on 10-05-2010 21:58

#24

laying an egg, a few days ago (may 2010)

Posted by phil withers on 10-05-2010 22:51

#25

No chance you could catch me one ?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-05-2010 09:46

#26

Larvae of Lampromyia canariensis have been described, for example by Nagatomi in the Vermilionindae in the Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Volume 2.