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 Ecce Sphyracephala europaea!!!
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 22:20
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Hi, I was in Szeged, South-Hungary on Friday and today, and I had time this morning to go to the river bank of Maros, where the very first Sphyracephala europaea, the first Diopsid in Europe was found. I started walking there from the city center at 9, and spent loooong hours with searching. The river bank is really steep, and full of mud of course. Every kind of thorny plants are found there to disencourage photographers After a long search, I found this beauty sitting on a leaf of Rubus, just 2-3 ms away from the river. This was at 2 PM, so it was really time consuming, but it was worth it of course! This is a really nice fly. I show pictures of the habitat also. A biologist wrote about his fly that he saw once about 10 000 specimens on a tree which was floating in the river...
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 22:21
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 22:23
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 22:34
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Habitat:
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 22:34
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:12
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Congratulations!  Looks like your hard work was repaid in full
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:23
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3122 Joined: 19.06.07 |
10 000 specimens on a tree??? The guy saw paradise |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:28
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Rui Andrade wrote: 10 000 specimens on a tree??? The guy saw paradise Who would have thought paradise is that muddy
Kahis |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:33
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3122 Joined: 19.06.07 |
I know, isn't it usual to hear that mud is nice for the skin? That makes it two reasons to get in the mud. |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:40
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
If You're in a boat the mud does not matter Maybe next year I'll be able to make videos |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 12-09-2009 23:44
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
congrats. |
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| Andre |
Posted on 14-09-2009 11:59
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 Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
It's not a nice fly. It's very ugly.. But then again, you don't tell a mother her baby is ugly, you tell her it's sweet. This fly is veeeeeeeery sweet  |
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| conopid |
Posted on 14-09-2009 18:48
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
It IS a nice fly. So there! 
Edited by conopid on 14-09-2009 18:48 Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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| cavex |
Posted on 31-07-2010 11:21
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Member Location: Posts: 11 Joined: 06.07.10 |
Nice pictures, Pwalter! Did you only see one single specimen on the whole trip?? Hans |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 31-07-2010 11:50
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
cavex wrote: Nice pictures, Pwalter! Did you only see one single specimen on the whole trip?? Hans Yea, only one! September is not the best month to find it. Nikola Rahmé, who is also active in diptera.info, saw more, here's a link. Walter Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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| cavex |
Posted on 31-07-2010 13:24
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Member Location: Posts: 11 Joined: 06.07.10 |
Thank you Walter, I'm thinking about visiting the site one day, I'm writing a small publication about European fossil Diopsidae now. Hans |
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