Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Conopid -> C. vesicularis, male or female?, Sweden

Posted by morfa on 07-06-2009 10:32
#1

Found this one today (June 7, 2009) here in Stockholm, Sweden.


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Help with further ID much appreciated!

Cheers!

/John

Edited by morfa on 08-06-2009 18:22

Posted by Kahis on 07-06-2009 11:01
#2

Conops vesicularis

Posted by conopid on 07-06-2009 12:46
#3

Please do add to the gallery - superb photos of live specimen.

Posted by crex on 07-06-2009 14:28
#4

Inspiring photos. Thanks morfa! :D

Posted by morfa on 07-06-2009 18:05
#5

Thank you very much! And this would be a female, right?

:)

/John

Posted by ChrisR on 07-06-2009 20:29
#6

Looks very similar to my photo here :)

Edited by ChrisR on 07-06-2009 20:30

Posted by phil withers on 07-06-2009 21:37
#7

This is a male

Posted by morfa on 08-06-2009 10:04
#8

ChrisR> Yes, it certainly does! Thanks for the link!

Phil> I see - that's surprising to me! I found this drawing of a male and female (?) C. vesicularis and while the one in my photos looks like the one on top surely the one on the bottom is a male, isn't it?!

/John