Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Pinned Periscelididae, N Sweden
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 05-02-2010 23:14
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
Hi, this is quite a thrill for me - this is my first Periscelis, Periscelididae, and more exciting yet, at least to me, is that it has been caught in the middle of the boreal forest in Northern Sweden! The window trap where it was found was set on an recently dead Aspen. All other swedish records of Periscelididae are from the southern third of the country, where there are many more species of decidious trees (and many more entomologists...). I have gotten a copy of Duda´s keys in Lindner, and the missing posterior cross-vein would rule out everything except P.nigra and P. annulipes. P. annulipes is a bigger species with median stripes on the mesonotum. So I think that this is the rare P. nigra, then! But I´ve read here on the forum that there are additional undescribed species out there - would it be safe to ID this as P. nigra? Haven´t checked all the details for this specific trap, but it is from the summer of 2009 at about 64 degrees northern latitude in Sweden. viktor j nilsson attached the following image:  [178.08Kb] |
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 05-02-2010 23:16
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
Lateral pleura of thorax..
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 05-02-2010 23:17
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
...and the head. My camera died on me before I got pics of the antenna, but I guess this suffice.
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 18-06-2010 11:14
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
Verified as P.nigra by Laszlo Papp. |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 18-06-2010 17:15
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
viktor j nilsson wrote: Verified as P.nigra by Laszlo Papp. May I ask: did You write him an email? To which email adress? Thanks! Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 18-06-2010 17:46
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
Yes I did, I wrote to him at lpapp <>AT<> zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu |
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| viktor j nilsson |
Posted on 18-06-2010 17:50
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Member Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 203 Joined: 25.02.08 |
actually I wrote to him at another e-mail adress, but he responded from that one, so I guess it is the correct one. and yes, it should be two (2) "zoo" in the e-mail adress! |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 18-06-2010 21:27
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Thanks!
Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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