Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanus spodopteroides?

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 18:03
#1
Found dead on summer 2000, Iberian peninsula: Catalonia: Girona province: Beuda; UTM 31T DG7477, 395 m. Total lenghth 19,5 mm; frontal índex=4 (=52/13)

This fly was previously identified as Tabanus eggeri, but...
http://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/insectarium/details.php?image_id=2128
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 18:07

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 18:04
#2
it has some red at laterl thorax

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 18:05
#3
a female

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 18:06
#4
... and the antenna

Posted by Zeegers on 16-10-2012 18:44
#5
Hi Rafael

Definitely NOT eggeri and it really looks like spodoperoides


Theo

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 16-10-2012 19:15
#6
Well, in the spanish keys (someone left to me) it is needed the back tibiae, but it does'nt fit with the other alternatives (bovinus, tinctus, sudeticus), so cf. spodopteroides
Thanks anyway