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 Anthomyiidae? - 27/08/2011 (1) > Hydrophoria lancifer?
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 28-08-2011 00:00
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
27/08/2011, on beech hedge, Borsbeek (Belgium). ID'able? Thanks in advance!
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 28-08-2011 00:01
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 28-08-2011 00:01
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 28-08-2011 10:46
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Looks like Hydrophoria lancifer. |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 28-08-2011 22:49
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
Thanks a lot, Stephen. I have changed the title and will wait for confirmation. Maybe it's just me, but I think this one looks a bit different from previous specimens of H. lancifer that I've seen. Is it a variable species and what are its key features? |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 29-08-2011 11:44
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Can you see the arista clearly in any of your pictures? It needs to be plumose for Hydrophoria. Given this, the leg colours and lack of fore-marginal bands on the abdominal tergites would lead to H. lancifer (or H. diabata, which is separable only from the genitalia). Hylemya is ruled out by the hairing of the scutellum and acrostichal region and by the well-developed lower calypter. Nikita's photo at http://www.dipter...to_id=1761 is not dissimilar to this. If the arista is not plumose, it's back to the drawing board  |
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| Jeroen K |
Posted on 03-09-2011 16:06
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Member Location: Kapellen, Belgium Posts: 1141 Joined: 03.04.09 |
Arista is plumose, thanks for your help.
Edited by Jeroen K on 03-09-2011 16:06 |
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