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 Tyrolean Psilid - Psilosoma? And which?
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| Sundew |
Posted on 08-07-2011 22:46
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3938 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, This fly really puzzles me. It looks like a Psilid, and the gallery offers only Psilosoma audouini with a certain resemblance. I saw my fly in the Tyrolean Oetztal above Niederthai (ca. 1.700 m), and the Fauna Europaea says the species is absent in Austria. So what is it? I urgently need help! Many thanks, Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [148.27Kb] Edited by Sundew on 11-07-2011 11:15 |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 10-07-2011 23:54
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3938 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Dear friends: this fly need help!! |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 11-07-2011 11:13
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3938 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Meanwhile I found out that the hind femur of P. audouini is differently shaped (or my photos do not show the right angle - ?). So P. lefebvrei might be another option, but the photos in the gallery show a non-striped thorax. Stephane seems to be acquainted with that taxon, he might confirm the genus at least... May be, there is variation in colour? And also P. lefebvrei is, according to Fauna Europaea, absent in Austria. So this mystery has not been unravelled yet! |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 11-07-2011 12:28
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I think it is adouini. The males have swollen and curved hind femora, the females do not.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 11-07-2011 15:34
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3938 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Aha - this pointed-ass fly is a female (if I only could tell the sexes apart)! So if P. audouini, I had made a first record for Austria?! Shall I get a medal?  |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 11-07-2011 16:07
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Dunno about the medal, but if you are quick enough you can perhaps do a publication after you have verified it is a first records.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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