Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Norway: Pipunculidae -> Cephalosphaera furcata
Posted by Jorn R Gustad on 15-07-2016 21:32
#1
Further help appreciated on this female - I suspect Jassidophaga but find this family hard to approach. Specimen recorded 2nd July 2015 in coastal middle Norway.
Lateral:
Edited by Jorn R Gustad on 26-04-2017 18:00
Posted by Jorn R Gustad on 15-07-2016 21:33
#2
Dorsal:
Posted by ValerioW on 16-07-2016 17:53
#3
Checking my keys it appears as
Eudorylas kowarzi
Posted by ValerioW on 16-07-2016 17:58
#4
i.e. what I've found: long piercer, strongly upcurved, body greyish-brown, all femora yellow-tipped, tibiae clear yellow sometimes vaguely obscured about the middle, all femora yellow at base (hind pair more extensively so), tarsi yellow apart from last 1-2 segments darkened
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-07-2016 08:44
#5
Hanging vein m
2 tells us it is
Verrallia...
Posted by ValerioW on 19-07-2016 13:31
#6
Paul Beuk wrote:
Hanging vein m2 tells us it is Verrallia...
Missed that!
V acuta has that vein, and apparently it's the only species reported in Norway
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-07-2016 14:06
#7
Verrallia aucta, that is... :P
Posted by Jorn R Gustad on 21-07-2016 20:41
#8
Thank you - Valerio and Paul!
Posted by empeejay on 25-07-2016 16:37
#9
This certainly not
Verrallia! Try
Cephalops.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-07-2016 07:55
#10
Very odd with that wing venation...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-07-2016 15:32
#11
Getting rusty in my old age. It has been too long since I looked at pipunculids in detail. The presence of vein M
s and the absence of strong setae on the scutellum lead to
Cephalosphaera. The bump on the base of the ovipositor then tells us it is
C. furcata.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 26-07-2016 15:32