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Mating - Dioctria? - help ID
Isidro
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Posted on 17-08-2010 19:58
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Sorry, bad light (inside an oak forest) so bad photo. The female lack any yellow on abdomen. Male stay "floating" some time.
La Peņa, Huesca, low Pyrenees (500 meters), NE Spain

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Holopogonish awkward
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Reinoud

Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/

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Then not Dioctria? The tarsi seemed it... And genus is possible pleasssseeeeee????
 
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Can't really see much on this picture, but the antennae are certainly not Dioctria whole shape of creatures is different. Cool
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Field guide to the robber flies of the Netherlands and Belgium: https://www.jeugdbondsuitgeverij.nl/product/field-guide-to-the-robberflies-of-the-netherlands-and-belgium/

https://www.nev.nl/diptera/
 
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I agree: Holopogon species (male abdomen is very similar to H. venustus)
Edited by Dysmachus on 12-09-2010 11:48
 
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Isidro
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Posted on 12-03-2011 20:47
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Thanks everybody! Sorry for the delay. Good to have the genus identified (and maybe the species!)
 
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