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...