Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Usia? -> Usia versicolor (m)
Posted by Michael Becker on 05-12-2011 17:47
#1
Hello,
this 4mm fly is from last april from the mountains in the interior Sicily. Is this a Usia sp. (Bombylidae)? They all had these remarkable orange blots on the thorax and the abdomen. Is the species therefore recognizable?
Thank,
Michael
Edited by Michael Becker on 06-12-2011 18:46
Posted by David Gibbs on 06-12-2011 16:25
#2
a male
Usia (Micrusia) versicolor
Posted by Michael Becker on 06-12-2011 18:46
#3
Thank you for your answer David. Nice fly.
If I see this correct, this species still isn't in the gallery, although it is, if I can trust the number of hits in the net, not very rare.
Here is another photo. Is this on the right now the female?
Michael
Edited by Michael Becker on 06-12-2011 19:13
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-12-2011 19:52
#4
Please, submit a
versicolor, please...?
Posted by Michael Becker on 06-12-2011 20:16
#5
Have a little patience Paul, I will. I just wanted to wait, until I know whether this darker fly in the right is the corresponding female. If so I could submit two pictures at once :)
Michael
Edited by Michael Becker on 06-12-2011 20:17
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-12-2011 20:21
#6
Oh, I am patient...
Posted by David Gibbs on 07-12-2011 11:29
#7
Michael Becker wrote:
Have a little patience Paul, I will. I just wanted to wait, until I know whether this darker fly in the right is the corresponding female. If so I could submit two pictures at once :)
Michael
almost certainly, i see nothing about the female which does not fit
versicolor, but the clinching feature is not visible. do you have the specimens?
Posted by Michael Becker on 07-12-2011 16:57
#8
No sorry, I still don't collect. Is it so, that the males have this orange blot, and the females not, or is this just a varability in the species and not a sexualdimorphism?
Michael