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 Haematopota to ID
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 28-05-2019 21:28
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
I'm a bit lost with this Haematopota. Scape is short, not brownish at base, evenly oval and polished black apically. Frons looks higher than broad and first flagellomere is brownish at base. Mid femur is black location: Esposende (Portugal) date: 16/04/2019 Rui Andrade attached the following image:  [165.6Kb] |
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Posted on 28-05-2019 21:28
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 28-05-2019 21:29
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Posted on 28-05-2019 21:29
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 28-05-2019 21:30
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 28-05-2019 21:31
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Posted on 28-05-2019 21:31
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 29-05-2019 07:49
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19336 Joined: 21.07.04 |
So what about the scutellum ? Theo |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 29-05-2019 13:54
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Hi Theo, scutellum has a thin pale strip, not a patch, I would say.
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 29-05-2019 14:12
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19336 Joined: 21.07.04 |
OK Thanks. Haematopota are a flying disaster, as well known. Your first antennal segment has a clea constriction, the abdomen is “definitely” green (to Haematopota standards) and the scutellum lacks a light spot. So I am afraid it is H. pluvialis. The frons is about square. The canonical angle of view is slightly more from above, but the handbooks don’t explain this properly ! Theo |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 29-05-2019 14:43
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Thanks Theo!! H. pluvialis is perfectly fine, good learning for me. I compared the antenna of my specimen with this picture from Steven Falk's Flickr page and thought that in my specimen the notch was much more subtle (and this got me off the right track): https://www.flick...590233331/ I attach one more photo where the notch is more visible. And thanks also for the tip regarding the right angle of view of the frons. Hopefully next time it will be better. 
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 29-05-2019 16:08
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19336 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The notch is very VERY variable in pluvialis (though always present) and as said, Haematopota is an exercise in disasters. That said, any greenish / yellowish Haematopota is bound to be pluvialis (warning: not vice versa: many specimens from Eastern Europe are totally lacking the green !) Theo |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 29-05-2019 17:34
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Thanks again Theo, you are very helpful! I will write down in my notes on the variability of the notch and the colour of the abdomen. |
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