Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stegana furta cf, Drosophilidae, June 2008, Hungary
Posted by Xespok on 20-02-2009 18:05
#1
Is this Camarota curvipennis or a different species? Does not look like C. curvipennis, neither any Stegana sp I know.
Edited by Xespok on 04-03-2009 19:10
Posted by Xespok on 20-02-2009 18:06
#2
Another view.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 20-02-2009 18:32
#3
A
Stegana sp. (Drosophilidae)
Posted by Xespok on 20-02-2009 18:32
#4
OK, one may safely discard Camarota (in this post). Arista is plumose, too many bristles on the fly. So Stegana sp after all?
I see Papp's key of Stegana, but I get nowhere as it does not describe the coloration of the species.
Posted by Xespok on 20-02-2009 18:34
#5
Thx valery, I came to the same conclusion in the meanwhile.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-02-2009 23:21
#6
Head appears to be higher than long:
S. furta.
Posted by Xespok on 21-02-2009 06:46
#7
I have a drawing of S. furta, which shows all-light legs. But the drawing shows a female. Here, the second and third femora are distinctly brownish, which contradicts the picture in Papp's Fauna Hungariae book. Do you know whether the dark f2, f3 is ok for furta?
In my key the head needs to be twice as high as long for Stegana (Stegana). This is difficult to assess.
Edited by Xespok on 21-02-2009 06:47
Posted by Xespok on 04-03-2009 19:09
#8
So this is Stegana (Stegana) sp. Probably furta, as this is supposed to be the only sp. in Europe in this subgenus. The leg color discrepancy is still there.