Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Saropogon obesulus

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 28-05-2016 18:01
#9

Thanks for your reply Reinoud! :) :)

I see now why I wasn't happy with my own ID. Not only there is indeed tomentum on top of mesopleuron but it is a male, and a male leucocephalus should have black mystax! :) I shouldn't work on Saropogon when I am ready to go to sleep, hehehehehe... ;)

Quaedfliegh wrote:
But reading Engel description does not fit good ; ( We will have to rework the key ?


Well, remember all the trouble Saropogon brought last year ;) We already had serious problems with potential obesulus that didn't fit the description. I think the problem is that Iberian specimens weren't really studied in old works and variability hasn't been taken into account... Yes, certainly keys need to be reworked, ours included ;)

Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 28-05-2016 18:08