Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Psychodidae

Posted by Jozef Obona on 17-11-2011 17:20
#1

X.2011
Slovakia
from
water-filled tree holes
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Clogmia sp. ? /?tristis?/

Thanks for help
Jozef

Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 17-11-2011 17:27
#2

Hard to say anything without a dorsal view of the terminalia at higher magnification

Posted by Jozef Obona on 17-11-2011 20:32
#3

Gunnar M Kvifte wrote:
Hard to say anything without a dorsal view of the terminalia at higher magnification



Thanks for post.

Help these bad photos? :(

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Jozef

Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 18-11-2011 15:17
#4

Clogmia is not unlikely at all. But I would not put a species name on it without making a slide. Where did you find the specimen?

Posted by Jozef Obona on 18-11-2011 17:48
#5

Gunnar M Kvifte wrote:
Clogmia is not unlikely at all. But I would not put a species name on it without making a slide. Where did you find the specimen?


First time I find in Quercus water-filled tree holes (dendrotelmata) Psychodidae larvae
by Vaillant 1989 nad Rozkošný 1980
there are Clogmia sp. ; Telmatoscopus sp. and Psychoda spp.
In October 2011 i find this adult
I think it is adult from tree - holes Psychodidae larvae but, I'm not sure.
From literature about Psychodidae adults I have only Enderlein, G. (1937)
and description are similar to the L. tristis (Meig. 1830) = Clogmia tristis
:S

Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 28-11-2011 17:17
#6

Enderlein's taxonomic work on Psychodidae is not very good at all. Lepiseodina tristis (placed by some authors in Clogmia - the classification still isn't sorted out well) breeds in water-filled tree-holes, but the same is true for L. rotschildi and occationally Clogmia albipunctata.
I can probably examine the specimen for you if you want.