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 Dolichopodidae? with very very long antenae
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| Filex |
Posted on 22-08-2007 20:19
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Hello I would like to request your help to identify the fly in the picture. It was taken today close to a small pond in a summer-dried brook in a cork-oak and Aleppo pine forest in NE Catalonia (Spain). It seems to me a possible Dolichopodidae but the long antenae are unexpected to me. Thanks a lot in advance Miquel Filex attached the following image:  [29.06Kb] |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 22-08-2007 20:22
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Ludovicus (Doli.)
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 22-08-2007 20:25
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9561 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Yes, Miguel, Dolichopodidae, species of Ludovicius Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 22-08-2007 20:56
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
what arista!!   |
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| Igor Grichanov |
Posted on 23-08-2007 06:27
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 Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 1818 Joined: 17.08.06 |
Now Sybistroma (again). Multiple male colour and morphological ornaments (male secondary sexual characters or MSSC) are commonly found on antennae, mouthparts, legs, wings and abdomen in many Dolichopodidae species in addition to large genital capsule (hypopygium). This decoration developed more in tropical species marks out long-legged flies from all other Diptera (Sivinski, 1997). Sybistroma dufouri Macquart, 1838: Ann.Soc.ent.France 7: 427 ** Type locality: France: Saint-Sever. Palaearctic: Balearic Is., France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, ?Yugoslavia, Morocco, Algeria * Please check key: http://grichanov.fortunecity.com/Ludovicius.html Edited by Igor Grichanov on 23-08-2007 06:36 Igor Grichanov |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 23-08-2007 07:11
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Wow!!! What antennae!! I want see one of these! |
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