Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Conopidae fly - Myopa picta (male)

Posted by David Clements on 22-04-2007 16:57
#16

I am not so sure that this is Myopa buccata. The middle crossvein (R-M) is, as far as I can tell, blackish and it is this vein which is diagnostically whitish in buccata. The arrowed whitish crossvein appears to be M-Cu. Superficially the species looks very like variegata, but the wing-markings and occiptal 'beard' rule this out. It could be an aberrant buccata, but my feeling is that this is something altogether different.