Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Rhagionidae: very small Rhagio

Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-07-2008 21:47
#1

Hello!

This Rhagio female from July-14 was not much bigger than a Chrysopilus (at a hedge, northwest Germany). Like some other Rhagios it was groping over the leaf with its forelegs as "antennae":
http://insektenfo...osus_W.avi (5,2 MB Video; if it does not play, you probably have to download and install this codec first: http://www.xvid.o....15.0.html).

Could it be Rhagio strigosus?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-07-2008 21:48
#2

Another view.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-07-2008 21:52
#3

Hello!

Here a considerably larger male from our garden. Same species?


Bigger picture:
http://www.foto-u...osus_M.jpg