Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Exoprosopa dispar, Hungary

Posted by jaurinum on 18-07-2008 18:48
#1

Hello !

Is it a Exoprosopa sp. from the family Bombyliidae? I have got some problem with the determination. The habitat is sandy meadow in NW-Hungary.

Edited by jaurinum on 19-09-2008 20:09

Posted by eguzki on 18-07-2008 19:21
#2

Hello jaurinum!!

Nice to see that you are active at this forum! :) I can't help you with identification but you should wait for David Gibbs who an expert of Bombyliids and often present here.

Posted by David Gibbs on 19-07-2008 16:43
#3

very distinctive but i have never see this one before. I think it is Exoprosopa but cant key from photo.

Posted by jaurinum on 20-07-2008 20:20
#4

David Gibbs wrote:
very distinctive but i have never see this one before. I think it is Exoprosopa but cant key from photo.


Hi David,
thanks for the confirmation.
Should it be a normally (rare) specimen, maybe an abnormal?

Posted by Xespok on 21-07-2008 17:20
#5

When I return to Hungary I try to look at the Hungarian literature on Bombyliidae. This is not one of the common Bombyliids of Hungary. I certainly had not seen anything similar in Hungary.

Posted by David Gibbs on 21-07-2008 17:44
#6

jaurinum wrote:
David Gibbs wrote:
very distinctive but i have never see this one before. I think it is Exoprosopa but cant key from photo.


Hi David,
thanks for the confirmation.
Should it be a normally (rare) specimen, maybe an abnormal?


very unlikely to be an aberation, just one i have never seen, there are a lot of those:)

Posted by Xespok on 27-07-2008 20:53
#7

As an idea could this be the male? of Exoprosopa dispar Loew 1869? This is supposed to be a rare species. According to my literature (Fauna Hungariae, Bombyliidae, Toth) only a single specimen has ever been collected in Hungary from the Transdanubian region.

Posted by David Gibbs on 28-07-2008 09:26
#8

Xespok wrote:
As an idea could this be the male? of Exoprosopa dispar Loew 1869? This is supposed to be a rare species. According to my literature (Fauna Hungariae, Bombyliidae, Toth) only a single specimen has ever been collected in Hungary from the Transdanubian region.


very possible, wing pattern fits, cabt see anything in description that rules it out.

Posted by jaurinum on 28-07-2008 18:15
#9

Xespok wrote:
As an idea could this be the male? of Exoprosopa dispar Loew 1869? This is supposed to be a rare species. According to my literature (Fauna Hungariae, Bombyliidae, Toth) only a single specimen has ever been collected in Hungary from the Transdanubian region.


Thank you very much for research work. Well, if it really this species, the observation is important for the hungarian Bombyliidae fauna.

Posted by jaurinum on 19-09-2008 20:07
#10

At this week I showed this photo to the author of the Fauna Hungariae, Bombyliidae. In his opinion, it is Exoprosopa dispar, a female, for sure.

Posted by jaurinum on 19-09-2008 20:12
#11

Closer view

Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-09-2008 21:41
#12

Love it.