Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sturmia bella?
Posted by human fly on 06-07-2011 21:41
#1
I have found this beauty recently. Very rare, only one of a kind, browsing flowers with bunch of hover flies buzzing around. The closest match is Sturmia bella, but I'm not sure... It is huge, twice as large as house fly, with extraordinary huge head.
Posted by ChrisR on 06-07-2011 21:47
#2
No, not
Sturmia - more like
Spallanzania, I think - do you have more angles? It can't be
Sturmia because the head is so very different - like a
Gonia, but not quite ;)
Posted by human fly on 06-07-2011 22:51
#4
I have a few different angles, but very similar to this one, this is the best shot. I didn't picture it from behind, or from above, it escaped. I have checked Spallanzania, but it has yellowish stripes on the body, my fly is grey. The head is very similar. It's still hard to conclude.
Posted by human fly on 06-07-2011 22:56
#5
Yes, Sundew, it looks alike very much.:)
Edited by human fly on 06-07-2011 22:57
Posted by ChrisR on 07-07-2011 00:20
#6
Post a few more photos (dorsal & lateral) and we'll see :)
Posted by human fly on 07-07-2011 14:41
#7
Well, the best I have is this semi-dorsal view. A little bit better view of the wings, I guess. Lateral view was tricky to take, I don't have it. But I will go back to the area this weekend. It must show itself again.
Posted by ChrisR on 07-07-2011 15:04
#8
Yes, to me it looks like
Spallanzania but it is a genus that I have never caught myself so I am unfamiliar with it, generally speaking :)
Posted by human fly on 07-07-2011 15:20
#9
You are right, Chris, it really looks like Spallanzania. But still a little bit different body colors. I have to find more of them.
Posted by ChrisR on 07-07-2011 15:36
#10
Yes, get them in a net, send them to me and I will give you a proper identification to species ;)