Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tricimba ID -> Oscinimorpha novakii

Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 10-05-2013 09:16
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Chloropidae, Oscinellinae: 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.