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 Big Croatian asilid
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| nick upton |
Posted on 05-12-2010 20:02
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Can anyone suggest a genus, maybe even a species for this large robber fly photographed in Croatia, near the coast in a scrubby limestone area? Several emerged soon after sunrise, hunting very close to the ground with a deep buzzing sound and resting/scanning from stones on the ground. This female had caught a small solitary bee. 23.7.2010 c 2.5cms Croatia, Zadar province. nick upton attached the following image:  [161.29Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 08-12-2010 21:43
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
And here's a male, same location same time, probably same species.
nick upton attached the following image:  [141.88Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 10-12-2010 18:12
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 Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2219 Joined: 18.05.10 |
Genus has to be Machimus...Well, i tried Engel and to no avail maybe this could be M. cf modestus or cf thoracicus. I hope someone else will react too.
Greetings, 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/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 10-12-2010 18:25
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Many thanks Reinoud for your help on this. Getting it to genus helps a lot. I have now found a record of M. modestus from the former Yugoslavia, but not for M thoracicus, but that doesn't mean it's not there! Maybe someone else will comment.
Edited by nick upton on 10-12-2010 18:26 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| Quaedfliegh |
Posted on 10-12-2010 18:40
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Member Location: Tilburg Netherlands Posts: 2219 Joined: 18.05.10 |
thoracicus (in Fauna Europaea spelt thoracius) is known from only Hungary.
Greetings, 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/ https://www.nev.nl/diptera/ |
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