Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chloropidae Tricimba sp.
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 17:04
#1
2 mm. body. La Garnatilla (Granada, S Spain). May 1, 2012.
More photos available.
Thanks for your help. Best regards
Edited by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 21:29
Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-05-2012 20:02
#2
Chloropidae
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 20:07
#3
The face seemed to me of Ephidrydae, not else. Thanks T:)ny :S
Edited by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 20:08
Posted by Sara21392 on 02-05-2012 20:38
#4
Looks like Tricimba genus, do you have more angles?
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 20:41
#5
Yes, I have :D
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 20:42
#6
couple
Posted by Sara21392 on 02-05-2012 21:24
#7
yes.
Tricimba sp. :)
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 21:28
#8
Thanks s:) much Sara. Male (left) and female (right), is it so?
Posted by Sara21392 on 02-05-2012 21:41
#9
Well, I can't say by those pics. Sorry. Just the first pic on the up is female.
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 21:43
#10
Yes, Sara. Now I'm uploading the male... I think for sure ?
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 21:44
#11
The male
Posted by Sara21392 on 02-05-2012 23:15
#12
Well abdomen looks like a male, but genitalia is not clear from this view!!!
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 23:19
#13
Well Sara, thanks, I'll try a better shot next time :)
Edited by Manuel Lopez on 02-05-2012 23:20
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 06-05-2012 20:26
#14
Well, two shots more today, let's see...
Posted by Manuel Lopez on 06-05-2012 20:28
#15
and a very funny couple...
Posted by Sara21392 on 06-05-2012 20:50
#16
Yes, that's a male. :)
Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 10-05-2013 14:25
#17
Chloropidae: Oscinimorpha novakii (Strobl, 1893). Not rare in all Mediterranean countries incl. Israel. The long proboscis protruding over the mouth margin, being blackish above; at least the first two tergites of the abdomen reddish-brownish, mostly the whole abdomen reddish (rare in this genus); three slightly impressed furrows on the mesonotum (= scutum), misleading beginners to the genus Tricimba; a robust Oscinimorpha, flower visitor similar to O. minutissima, O. koeleriae and Trachysiphonella ruficeps (= pygmaea). Larval substrate unknown. The long proboscis is also used for kleptoparasitic ingestion of the pre-digested food of zoophagous Heteroptera and spiders.