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 Hi

* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.04.22
* size - 10 mm (large fly)
* habitat - woodland, near river
* substrate - air Smile
* temperature - 30 ?C

This fly tried to bite me, but I catched it first Smile It is a tabanid female - so she wanted sucked me.. Shock the male only like sucks nectar, not blood. Wink

It is a very impressive fly to see moving and it is alive yet. Wink

Haematopota sp. (perhaps pluvialis, but I don?t know the characters for species in Haematopota sp.


EDIT ---> Title changed from "Haematopota sp." to "Haematopota cf. pluvialis"

NEW EDIT ----> Title changed from "Haematopota cf. pluvialis." to "Haematopota cf. eugeniae / ocelligera"; final change to Tabanidae female fly - Haematopota pluvialis
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 It is Haematopota irwini. Look at Tony's avatar Grin.

Regards.
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 thanks.
so... why there are no photos of this fly in diptera gallery? Smile
but which are the differences between this and H. pluvialis species?..
 
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 Hi guys!
Stephan only meaned "Haematopota looks like H. on Tony's avatar"Grin
As for species, Jorge may be quite right with H.pluvialis, but there are Tabanidae experts at our forum...
Nikita
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 Grin lol

let?s go wait for Tony and Theo to confirm the pluvialis or not. Wink
 
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 Well, I have my reservations.
Much too black-and-white for pluvialis.
Looks more like eugeniae or ocelligera.
Need to check my notes


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 ok. I?m waiting eagerly for the final veredict. Smile
 
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we can see clearly the many spiracles.
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 head profile almost 4:1... Grin
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 Hi Jorge


I found my notes.
Can we get a dorsal picture of the abdomen ?

Thanks


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 yes. Wait just a little more. Smile

I will put now a tachinid fly in next thread.
 
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 Yes, thank you.
I'm not sure, it is either ocelligera or pluvialis.
the lights ad colouration are so varying, depending on the flash, that I've got the feeling I've been tricked by some pictures (the scutellum is quite white in some, while quite dark in the last ...).
So, it might be pluvialis after all. Sorry...

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