Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tipulidae?
Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:49
#1
From a cave in Venezuela, August 2009
Psb. 2 species
5-10 mm aprox.
Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:50
#2
...the same species
Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:51
#3
the same...
Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:54
#4
another species?
Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:55
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Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:55
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Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:56
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Posted by malm1981 on 03-12-2009 15:57
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Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-12-2009 18:41
#9
I think both are Limoniidae
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-12-2009 20:09
#10
Unipectinate antennae in male (and nearly holoptic eyes) suggest
Rhipidia (abundant in the Neotropical region).
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-12-2009 20:11
Posted by malm1981 on 04-12-2009 20:25
#11
Thank you Paul and Black!
Posted by Chen Young on 13-12-2009 05:21
#12
Black is correct about the Rhipidia sp. which is the first image of a male Rhipidia. The second image is not the same as the first image. The second image and the rest of the images are male and female of a speceis of Erioptea (Mesocyphona) group. Here are some species in the
North America fauna .
Posted by malm1981 on 14-12-2009 19:51
#13
Thank you very much Chen!!! :)
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 23-01-2012 22:18
#14
The second sp. is most probably
Erioptera (Mesocyphona) caliptera subevanescens Alexander, 1940, differing from typical
caliptera mostly in the pattern of dark and pale rings on femora (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (11) 5: 296)