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 Oxycera meigenii, Stratiomyidae, July 2008, Greece
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| Xespok |
Posted on 17-03-2009 19:00
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
A spectacular fly that I met in Greece.
Xespok attached the following image:  [99.12Kb] Edited by Xespok on 09-04-2009 15:55 Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 17-03-2009 19:01
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Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
Another shot.
Xespok attached the following image:  [122.85Kb] Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 17-03-2009 20:30
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Magnificent Oxycera
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 17-03-2009 23:21
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7344 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Oxycera meigenii male, I think.
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| Xespok |
Posted on 26-03-2009 07:21
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Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
It must be close to meigeni, but I wonder if this is meigeni. My literature says that there should be a pair of yellowish dots on the thorax, the thorax is different here. Also the halteres should be brownish rather than yellowish. Other aspects also do not fit precisely. Is my literature wrong?
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 09-04-2009 15:55
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Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
I asked mr. Rudolf Rozkosny from the Czech Republuc to take a look at these images. Here is his response: There are no doubts that it is a male of O. meigenii because the yellow pattern of this species is fairly variable. Nevertheless, you can compare the male genitalia of your specimen with illustrations in my manual A biosystematic study of the European Stratiomyidae (Diptera), Vol. 2, 1983, 436 pp., Dr. Junk, Hague-Boston-London. So Tony was right after all. Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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