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Helina?
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Posted on 26-07-2010 23:02
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Hi,
Yesterday evening I saw many grey flies sitting on the ripening panicles of the abundant Calamagrostis epigeios. According to the black abdomen marks I consider them Helina. Can be said more? The pictures show the same individual.
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No hope for the little one?
 
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Female Helina on photos feels always like Russian roulette..
Crossveins seems infuscated, arista long haired, prealar very short, 2+2 katepisternals and on one side 4 dc and on the other side 3dc ? ....maybe Helina confinis

Joke
 
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Many thanks, Joke, you did your best (as always Smile). These little ones were so numerous, it would have been easy to take pictures also of a slim male. However, for technical reasons the fat females seemed to be better depictable by the camera. Now I know - males are needed...
 
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