Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 24-07-2016 15:26
#1
Sorry that I am posting different specimens in the same thread :S :S but it needs to be so this time.
In the last years, a certain type of
Physocephala has been spotted in the same area outside Madrid city systematically at the end of July and beginning of August. The keys take to
Physocephala vaginalis in the case of females (silvery pleural band, frons entirely yellow (no black line), light subcostal cell, no dark spot on wing tip and above all, big reddish theca with black apex).
My friend Eloy Higuera and I have been discussing these specimens and we think it is indeed
Physocephala vaginalis. But we have no reference material to compare. We might be interpreting something wrongly somewhere. Any Conopid expert can help to clarify the identity of this lovely fly?
Specimen photographed on 22.VII.2016.
Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 24-07-2016 15:28
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 24-07-2016 15:39
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But this doesn't finish here. There are also males that look rather similar to a certain point but don't fit any description (however, if we try to key them forgetting about the sex, they would be keyed to
P. vaginalis again). In the work of the Lindner series it is mentioned that males of
Physocephala vaginalis are unknown. I guess that after such a long time males have been found somewhere.
Is there any expert here who has in his collection or has seen male specimens of this species??
This one was photographed back on 02.VIII.2016 in the same place.
Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 24-07-2016 15:40