Thread subject: Diptera.info :: could it be Sturmia?

Posted by mwkozlowski on 09-01-2009 11:09
#1

probably I am wrong, but for a naive it may looks alike

Edited by mwkozlowski on 09-01-2009 11:11

Posted by ChrisR on 09-01-2009 14:07
#2

I can't see the hind tibia but it looks pretty good - either Sturmia or Blepharipa would be my guess. :)

Posted by mwkozlowski on 09-01-2009 14:27
#3

Chris Raper wrote:
I can't see the hind tibia but it looks pretty good - either Sturmia or Blepharipa would be my guess. :)


thanks, here is another shot now with some tibia; I am 99% sure that this is the same individual

Edited by mwkozlowski on 09-01-2009 14:28

Posted by Zeegers on 09-01-2009 21:18
#4

and I'm 100 % sure this is Sturmia bella (only species)

well done !

Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 09-01-2009 21:21
#5

The bristle comb on the hind tibia didn't look complete enough to me so I kept quiet ;)

Posted by Zeegers on 10-01-2009 18:50
#6

It is a female, even in Sturmia and Blepharipa the comb can be less clear than in males (though always very distinctive !)
With a Sturmia calyptra, black palpus, dark scutellum, only 1 reclinate orbital and 4 sternopleural bristles, there is no other option.

Theo