Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae IT-72 (Avellino) => Hebecnema vespertina

Posted by Borlinghaus on 13-07-2016 04:46
#1

found on Monte Cervialto at 1800m altitude, 7. July 2016. Italy, Campania

Edited by Borlinghaus on 13-07-2016 20:10

Posted by ValerioW on 13-07-2016 05:48
#2

Nope. Take care on wing veins pattern, it does not fit.

Edited by ValerioW on 13-07-2016 05:54

Posted by ValerioW on 13-07-2016 05:53
#3

Its family is Muscidae. Hebecnema vespertina

Posted by Borlinghaus on 13-07-2016 20:09
#4

thanks!

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 14-07-2016 08:41
#5

Sorry but it is not Hebecnema. The adbomen with large dark triangular spots sounds more like Spilogona spec. The altitude too.

Posted by ValerioW on 14-07-2016 09:54
#6

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Sorry but it is not Hebecnema. The adbomen with large dark triangular spots sounds more like Spilogona spec. The altitude too.



I read your tip and while trying to get a clue about it, I read again H. vespertina description and it convinces me that it could be this one. I don't even see those triangles you mentioned.



Rozkosny says:

1- about Hebecnema sp. males "[...] abdomen has no paired spots"

2- and about H. vespertina "wings moderately brownish" and for males " [...] abdomen with a short black midline (often absent in T4)"


From the picture it appears like that (the red area starts on the right, with T4, with no black midline, and continues to the left with the black midline visible)

Edited by ValerioW on 14-07-2016 10:14

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 14-07-2016 20:19
#7

The black trapezoidal spots are those on both sides of the midline you highlighted.
The distance between both last dc let us suppose it has only 3 post dc, so not Hebecnema. The frons is also too broad for a male Hebecnema, and the parafacials are well too wide (even visble from above). I'm confident that it is not Hebecnema.
I hold to my first thought about a Spilogona species with dark infuscated wings (like S. dispar for example).

Posted by ValerioW on 14-07-2016 20:48
#8

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
The black trapezoidal spots are those on both sides of the midline you highlighted.
The distance between both last dc let us suppose it has only 3 post dc, so not Hebecnema. The frons is also too broad for a male Hebecnema, and the parafacials are well too wide (even visble from above). I'm confident that it is not Hebecnema.
I hold to my first thought about a Spilogona species with dark infuscated wings (like S. dispar for example).



Ok, dc are few, you are right!

BTW: I think you're confusing fronto-orbital plane with parafacial. The latter is not visible from this upper view, and is in the lower side of the head

Edited by ValerioW on 14-07-2016 20:49

Posted by Borlinghaus on 27-07-2016 12:30
#9

uhm, is the case decided now?

thx
rolf

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 27-07-2016 16:03
#10

Spilogona sp. That's my final word !