Thread subject: Diptera.info :: dark Empis sp.? (edit: Rhamphomyia sp.)
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 02-05-2010 22:52
#1
hi flyforum,
Last week I found this ~8-9 mm dark Empis(?) sp.
Any idea what Empis sp. this could be?
place: Amsterdam forest
date: 1-05-2010
greeting Robert,
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 07-05-2010 23:29
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 02-05-2010 22:52
#2
picture 2
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 02-05-2010 22:53
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 02-05-2010 22:53
#3
empis with Sminthurus sp.
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 02-05-2010 22:53
Posted by KWQ on 03-05-2010 07:10
#4
Not an
Empis here but a
Rhamphomyia, in my opinion it could be
R. sulcatella.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-05-2010 20:16
#5
Why
sulcatella and not one of the other species in the
sulcata group?
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 03-05-2010 22:19
#6
Thank you for your reaction KWQ and Paul,
So Rhamphomyia sulcata is also a possibility?
Then I would place this as a Rhamphomyia cf. sulcata in my album.
greeting robert,
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 03-05-2010 22:22
Posted by KWQ on 04-05-2010 07:27
#7
Just a hasty intuition, because
sulcatella is the most common one of this complex in Finland and the most familiar to me, which was a bad enough reason to suggest anything ...
Now as you say, it seems to lack the typical hairs in the upper part of the genital complex, so it probably is some other species in the group.
Posted by KWQ on 04-05-2010 09:17
#8
And of course I also mixed some names, the common Finnish species I meant is
sulcatina and
sulcatella is unknown in Finland. What a bunch of names!
Posted by igor on 04-05-2010 09:55
#9
I would refer to R. sulcatina.
Best regards,
Igor
Posted by KWQ on 04-05-2010 10:15
#10
Thus you shared my first intuition, Igor!
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 04-05-2010 10:29
#11
igor wrote:
I would refer to R. sulcatina.
Best regards,
Igor
mmm.., I can not find this species (R. sulcatina) in the Dutch specieslist? :S