Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tabanid from Switzerland
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| Cor Zonneveld |
Posted on 10-08-2007 21:51
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 Member Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Posts: 840 Joined: 14.10.06 |
I saw this lovely Tabanid 18 July in Switzerland, Passo de Lucomagno, approx 1950 m altitude. It's rather smallish species, say some 10 mm. The flowers the fly is on are Saxifraga aizoides. The plants grew in a small and shallow mountain river, in a valley where cattle grazes occasionally. I couldn't find a match in the gallery, so I would like to ask suggestions for its ID. Cor Zonneveld attached the following image:  [128.46Kb] Thanks for your attention Cor Zonneveld |
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| Cor Zonneveld |
Posted on 10-08-2007 21:52
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Member Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Posts: 840 Joined: 14.10.06 |
second photo
Cor Zonneveld attached the following image:  [111.05Kb] Thanks for your attention Cor Zonneveld |
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| Cor Zonneveld |
Posted on 10-08-2007 21:52
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Member Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Posts: 840 Joined: 14.10.06 |
third and final photo
Cor Zonneveld attached the following image:  [132.51Kb] Edited by Cor Zonneveld on 10-08-2007 21:53 Thanks for your attention Cor Zonneveld |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 11-08-2007 11:57
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19233 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Terrific ! Male Glaucops hirsutus, high altitude horsefly in the Alps. Theo |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 11-08-2007 16:15
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 Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 664 Joined: 08.02.07 |
Superb photos. I have collected females of the very similar Glaucops fratellus in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. |
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