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 Unidentified Black Empididae: Empis sp
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| Benus |
Posted on 15-01-2012 17:57
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Member Location: London, UK Posts: 26 Joined: 11.01.12 |
Hi everybody! I have this foto of a mosquito, taken in May, it was in Tuscany, Italy, 25km from the sea, 500mt height. This species is very sturdy if compared with other that I know, one can handle it quite roughly without damage it. Any clue? I've done some reserch in this site and in google but I can't find anything, culicidae are a very big family!!! p.s. If I google the keywords "black mosquito" I obtein results about some fish food but no taxon  Here to download the original file:http://farm8.stat...4660_o.jpg 
Edited by Benus on 15-01-2012 20:06 |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 15-01-2012 19:58
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Welcome Benus. This is not a Culicidae, not even a Nematoceran. The antennae are of the Brachycera-type. This is an Empis sp., (Empididae).
Stephane. |
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| Benus |
Posted on 15-01-2012 23:10
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Member Location: London, UK Posts: 26 Joined: 11.01.12 |
Stephane Lebrun wrote: Welcome Benus. This is not a Culicidae, not even a Nematoceran. The antennae are of the Brachycera-type. This is an Empis sp., (Empididae). Hello Stephane! I was definitively looking in the wrong direction!!! Thanks for the help, I've corrected the title with your info. I still trying to find the species but I've just understood that in Italy there are 329 species of the genus Empis! |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-01-2012 11:38
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Perhaps with the actual specimen I could say more. It seems to be a male, so another picture of the abdomen (lateral view) might already allow for more specific ID, too.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Benus |
Posted on 16-01-2012 17:04
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Member Location: London, UK Posts: 26 Joined: 11.01.12 |
Paul Beuk wrote: Perhaps with the actual specimen I could say more. It seems to be a male, so another picture of the abdomen (lateral view) might already allow for more specific ID, too. Here the best photo that I have of the abdomen. Benus attached the following image:  [187.91Kb] |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 18-01-2012 18:10
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Sorry, the detail is still not good enough to say more than Empis (Empis) sp.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Benus |
Posted on 18-01-2012 20:43
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Member Location: London, UK Posts: 26 Joined: 11.01.12 |
Thank for your time Paul, and sorry for bothering you with the p.m.
Edited by Benus on 22-02-2012 02:39 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 19-01-2012 10:07
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Never mind. You can always send the specimen. 
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Benus |
Posted on 19-01-2012 17:52
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Member Location: London, UK Posts: 26 Joined: 11.01.12 |
I don't live there anymore, the photo was taken in 2009. At the time I had not opportunities to study about entomology and so I was just collecting images. If I had the opportuninity I would have been glad to send hundreds of specimen, can you imagine how many arthropods I deald with in five years of vinyard and olives? and in the winter there was the wood to cut, I've seen so many differnt larvae that I can't remember all of them. |
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