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 Trypetoptera punctulata (Sciomyzidae) couple on Vincetoxicum
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| Sundew |
Posted on 02-07-2012 15:50
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, Some days ago I watched these lovely flies on a Vincetoxicum hirundinaria plant. I know that Tephritids like Euphranta connexa have Asclepiadoids as host plants, but I could not ID this one, so help is greatly appreciated! Many thanks, Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [189.82Kb] Edited by Sundew on 02-07-2012 16:20 |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 02-07-2012 16:06
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Dear Claudia: wonderful love scene, but this is Trypetoptera punctulata (Sciomyzidae), who came to Asclepias stem just for this gymnastics. Otherwise, this fly is famous as the "faked fruit-fly", for both Bernhard Merz, Ian White (and myself) in the very beginning of tephritidologist's career tried to ID it using tephriti keys. Results were the same, and always very strange!
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| Sundew |
Posted on 02-07-2012 16:19
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Ha - the little beasts fooled me! Trypetoptera I know from this location, but the one I took photos of in last summer had much bigger white spots on the wings and looked not so dark. Somehow I felt that these were no "good" Tephritids, but Ulidiidae was the wrong choice, too... That won't happen twice! Many thanks for your quick help indeed. |
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