Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unidentified Black Empididae: Empis sp
Posted by Benus on 15-01-2012 17:57
#1
Hi everybody!
I have this foto of a mosquito, taken in May, it was in Tuscany, Italy, 25km from the sea, 500mt height.
This species is very sturdy if compared with other that I know, one can handle it quite roughly without damage it.
Any clue? I've done some reserch in this site and in google but I can't find anything, culicidae are a very big family!!!
p.s. If I google the keywords "black mosquito" I obtein results about some fish food but no taxon :@
Here to download the original file:
http://farm8.stat...4660_o.jpg
Edited by Benus on 15-01-2012 20:06
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-01-2012 19:58
#2
Welcome Benus. This is not a Culicidae, not even a Nematoceran. The antennae are of the Brachycera-type. This is an
Empis sp., (Empididae).
Posted by Benus on 15-01-2012 23:10
#3
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Welcome Benus. This is not a Culicidae, not even a Nematoceran. The antennae are of the Brachycera-type. This is an Empis sp., (Empididae).
Hello Stephane!
I was definitively looking in the wrong direction!!!
Thanks for the help, I've corrected the title with your info.
I still trying to find the species but I've just understood that in Italy there are 329 species of the genus Empis!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-01-2012 11:38
#4
Perhaps with the actual specimen I could say more. It seems to be a male, so another picture of the abdomen (lateral view) might already allow for more specific ID, too.
Posted by Benus on 16-01-2012 17:04
#5
Paul Beuk wrote:
Perhaps with the actual specimen I could say more. It seems to be a male, so another picture of the abdomen (lateral view) might already allow for more specific ID, too.
Here the best photo that I have of the abdomen.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-01-2012 18:10
#6
Sorry, the detail is still not good enough to say more than
Empis (Empis) sp.
Posted by Benus on 18-01-2012 20:43
#7
Thank for your time Paul, and sorry for bothering you with the p.m.
Edited by Benus on 22-02-2012 02:39
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-01-2012 10:07
#8
Never mind. You can always send the specimen. ;)
Posted by Benus on 19-01-2012 17:52
#9
I don't live there anymore, the photo was taken in 2009.
At the time I had not opportunities to study about entomology and so I was just collecting images.
If I had the opportuninity I would have been glad to send hundreds of specimen, can you imagine how many arthropods I deald with in five years of vinyard and olives? and in the winter there was the wood to cut, I've seen so many differnt larvae that I can't remember all of them.