Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera ID
Posted by Claude54 on 18-10-2010 20:45
#1
Could you please, help me to identify this Diptera? Found on 21.09.2010 in Mentana - Rome Italy at forest edge. Thanks Claudio
Edited by Claude54 on 18-10-2010 20:46
Posted by Claude54 on 18-10-2010 20:47
#2
Second image
Posted by rvanderweele on 18-10-2010 20:48
#3
Lauxaniidae. "Calliopum"-ish
Posted by rvanderweele on 18-10-2010 21:05
#4
Hmmmm, decided to look at the photo's again...it is for sure a Lauxaniidae, but I am not convinced any more about Calliopum. I am well able to imagine that there are other "weird" lauxanids in Italy. Pity I can't see the birstles on the thorax well
Posted by katerina dvorakova on 18-10-2010 21:33
#5
I think it is Calliopum sp.
Katka
Posted by Claude54 on 18-10-2010 21:39
#6
Hi Ruud, thanks for your kind reply, I'm adding this detail hoping that can help in some way.
Posted by rvanderweele on 18-10-2010 21:58
#7
Thank you, Katka, thank you! I began to hesitate...I wondered what kind of weird looking, Lauxaniids you have in Southern Europe. Is it elisae? I think (!) I see 4 ac's and the third segment of the antenna looks pretty long
Posted by katerina dvorakova on 18-10-2010 22:40
#8
Ruud,
may be you are right, but I dont know. Ac rows sometimes bad visible at this genus, and only from a photo....:|
Katka
Posted by Claude54 on 19-10-2010 13:05
#9
Thanks to all, referring to the Checklist of the Italian fauna updated on 2003, the following are the only Calliopum found in my country :
Calliopum Strand, 1928
Calliopum aeneum (Fallén, 1820) (N, S)
Calliopum elisae (Meigen, 1826) (N)
Calliopum nigripes (Macquart, 1835) (Si)
So, may be, could be easier to ID the right one!;)
Claudio
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-10-2010 13:09
#10
Well, considering that it might be
nigripes, but I am certain there should be more species on the Italian list than those three.