Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Hybotidae: Platypalpus? (13.11.09)

Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-11-2009 03:09
#1

Hello!

This 2 mm Hybotid from last night the light in our garden (northwest Germany) resembles the P. (australo-)minutus I had shortly, but it's legs are more yellow and the middle pair less thickened than in other Platypalpus I know.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-11-2009 10:53
#2

Platypalpus come in many shapes and sizes...

Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-11-2009 04:36
#3

Hi. Paul!

Paul Beuk wrote:
Platypalpus come in many shapes and sizes...


Thanks. I see... Most species I know from the warmer season come with a more ore less yellow body.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-11-2009 10:41
#4

There are entirely black species as well; some species have extremely swollen mid femora, in others mid femora are hardly more swollen than the fore femora; antennae can be short or elongate, yellow to black, with a white arista; male genitalis can be small and inconspicuous to large and conspicuous...