Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Pantophthalmidae
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| Isidro |
Posted on 28-08-2012 16:06
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
This specimen is exhibited in Museum Mensch und Natur, Münich. It's put only as an example of a "fly", and it don't wear a scientific name like the rest of insects of the case. I found some images of the same species in Google search, but they're unidentified too.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 28-08-2012 17:31
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I am not at my desk but it should be fairly easy to guess at a species. It is a male Pantophthalmus and my guess would be tabaninus. I will check when I get back to me keys.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 28-08-2012 17:34
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks Chris! I will let as P. tabaninus unless another species is purposed. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 28-08-2012 19:04
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yeah, well I have had a quick look at my specimens. The problem with the genus is that they do look very similar ... tabaninus is still a possibility but a few others are too. I'd have to have the specimen and key if - or have some very detailed photos of the thorax, face and hind leg 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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