Thread subject: Diptera.info :: An interesting little rhinophorid
Posted by ChrisR on 01-09-2009 16:00
#1
Helene kindly sent me some mixed tachinids and rhinophorids from Provence recently and I have been pouring over them. All of the rhinophorids look like these individuals but they are not similar to any of the rhinophorids that I am familiar with - has anyone got some suggestions? :)
All caught at the end of July / start of August and are between 5 and 8mm long.
Edited by ChrisR on 01-09-2009 16:02
Posted by ChrisR on 01-09-2009 16:01
#2
another specimen...
Posted by Zeegers on 02-09-2009 07:52
#3
DOn't let the colouration distract you.
Looks like a Stevenia. Check for the Peleteria-bristles.
Theo
Posted by ChrisR on 02-09-2009 08:08
#4
Yes, they have 3 "
Peleteria-bristles" on each side and small hairs all down the parafacial :)
Is it possible to identify
Stevenia from southern Europe? Is there a key? :)
Posted by Zeegers on 02-09-2009 18:53
#5
Recent key by Cerretti and Pape in Zootaxa.
Should work in Italy
Theo
Posted by ChrisR on 02-09-2009 19:08
#6
Thanks Theo - I have downloaded
the key online and it seems to work OK. I have run one specimen through it and that came out to
Stevenia deceptoria, which occurs in the region (Provence, France) :)
Edited by ChrisR on 02-09-2009 19:09
Posted by ChrisR on 02-09-2009 19:34
#7
Argh ... the last one is a female and it is totally black with little orange marks on the femurs. Keys out provisionally to
S.etrusca, which is given as a "sp.nova" occurring mainly in Italy in the paper but is not listed as a European species in Fauna Europaea :(