Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanid, maybe Pangonius

Posted by Isidro on 30-05-2009 21:01
#1

At first time I thinked in Nemestrinidae, but seeing it closely showed me only a tabanid, probably a small kind of Pangonius.

Today. Peñaflor, Aragón, NE Spain, 300 meters, sucking thistles, attracted too to my camera where it landed.

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Cold it be identified?
Thanks
Isidro

Posted by Zeegers on 31-05-2009 10:43
#2

Yes, it is a male Pangonius.

Difficult genus, very difficult to say from these pictures.
First guess is male variegatus.


Theo

Posted by Isidro on 31-05-2009 16:23
#3

Thanks a lot Theo, yes clearly a male, but the species... I will put as Pangonius aff. variegatus. At least we have a guess, not as in this one http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=13762