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 Phasia to ID in December!
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 03-12-2008 20:58
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
On the last 2nd of December I found, in Barcelos (Portugal), this Phasia specimen. Maybe Phasia pusilla? Isn't December too late for a Phasia  ?    |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-12-2008 21:11
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Phasia pusilla (brown halteres & bare outside the frontal row) but maybe Theo can say more?  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 04-12-2008 19:54
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19146 Joined: 21.07.04 |
It is indeed a male Phasia subgn. Hyalomyia. There are many species and males are very similar, but for the reasons given by Chris I'd like to agree on pusilla. Pusilla is found in october in Holland, so december 2th in Spain is late, but not surprisingly late. Theo |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 04-12-2008 23:19
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Hi Chris and Theo! Thank you for your help. I was a bit surprised by finding a Phasia specimen so late in the year, specially because it has been very cold in the last weeks. I caught the fly sweeping the grass and the fly practicaly didn't move due to the cold. |
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