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