Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tipula ID ->Tipula (Vestiplex) scripta

Posted by Pentti Ketola on 10-07-2011 08:29
#1
Hi,
I take the photo on 9 July 2011 Kokkola, Finland.
Size 16mm.

Regards Pentti
Edited by Pentti Ketola on 12-07-2011 09:25

Posted by Pentti Ketola on 10-07-2011 08:29
#2
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Posted by clovis on 10-07-2011 10:55
#3
do you have lateral aznd posterior picture of hypopygium?

Posted by JSalmela on 12-07-2011 06:34
#4
Hi,

Very nice photos. This specimen belongs to Tipula (Vestiplex) scripta, a common species in Finland. Tipula pallidicosta is very similar and the best discriminating characters are present in the male hypopygium (long appendices of 9th sternite in scripta are sinuous but rather straight in pallidicosta). However, pallidicosta is apparently rare in Finland, so far not collected by me despite rather intensive collecting over 10 years.

-Jukka Salmela
http://sites.google.com/site/cranefliesoffinland/

Posted by Pentti Ketola on 12-07-2011 09:24
#5
Many thanks Jukka!

Pentti:)