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| mwkozlowski |
Posted on 15-04-2009 22:40
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 Member Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 782 Joined: 17.10.06 |
I found this yesterday under bark of an old pine stamp with some Formica around...
mwkozlowski attached the following image:  [54.29Kb] Edited by mwkozlowski on 15-04-2009 22:41 very general entomologist |
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| Andre |
Posted on 17-04-2009 11:00
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 Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
Absolutely! |
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| caliprobola |
Posted on 17-04-2009 11:39
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Member Location: Belgium Posts: 203 Joined: 24.05.07 |
ID to species level should be possible with this picture and with the right key i guess. |
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| Andre |
Posted on 17-04-2009 11:57
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Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
Just with the picture, I don't know. But I hope you can rear them, or some of them? I never ID'd these pupae. Wait for a specialist on Microdon to reply or contact them yourself. Good luck :-) |
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| mwkozlowski |
Posted on 18-04-2009 18:58
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Member Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 782 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Andre wrote: Just with the picture, I don't know. But I hope you can rear them, or some of them? I never ID'd these pupae. Wait for a specialist on Microdon to reply or contact them yourself. Good luck :-) I am not a keen dipterologist and I left them in situ, shame on me! very general entomologist |
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| Andre |
Posted on 19-04-2009 11:57
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Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
Go back asap and try to gently collect a pupa. Make pics of it and rear it (store it at a dry place, room temperature). Write down collection date, location, ant species, place of ants nest etcetera. Maybe find a dipterist near you to help you.. Always interesting, these species! |
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 20-04-2009 07:31
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
I do not have any key here, but I think that the deep reticulations and the long posterior spiracle is used to idenitify M. analis? But i think that this species uses Lasius platythorax as host? Or maybe I am messing everthing up in my head when I cannot see the key. Rear them! Beautiful flies and pupae. |
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