Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is a bombyliidae?

Posted by gigi58 on 18-05-2010 20:19
#1

You can identify this fly? Photographed today at salt pans of Trapani? 12-13 mm
Thanks

Posted by sd on 18-05-2010 21:42
#2

Tabanidae, Chrysops, male.
clear spot in discal cell so italicus group.
eyes just touching would suggest Chrysops italicus --
reasonably common on Mediterranean saltmarsh

Posted by gigi58 on 19-05-2010 05:15
#3

Thanks