Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Limoniidae (11), Metalimnobia quadrimaculata?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 29-07-2009 08:45
#1

June 27, 2009, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia. Not collected.

Posted by paqui on 16-08-2009 00:08
#2

Hello
-it fits with this pic http://www.galeri...ulata.html
- but doesn't fit exactly with a keys´s book pic from switzerland, where spots draw a "flatened donut" (a big "O" by the end of Sc) as in M. zetterstedti
- it fits too with F de France (as Limnobia in 1924), with the two rings on legs, but in this book the spots from the wing are smaller..
-> i suppose it will be due to variability ¿? nice pic, they are lovely :)

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 17-08-2009 16:24
#3

Many thanks paqui.

Posted by pwalter on 17-08-2009 16:39
#4

Can I ask how big this was? (I found a very large male limoniid resembling this, and want to ID that).

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 19-08-2009 15:41
#5

Pretty big that's all I can tell.