Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Nephrotoma sp. (male)

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 09-05-2012 17:00
#1

This Tipulidae looks like Nephrotoma but couldn't get further although was "hand-clap" collected by someone else. Vilafant, Girona Province, Catalonia, Iberian peninsula, 8-5-2012.
11 mm long; wingspan: 35 mm. Antenna with 13 segments. Grey pterostigma. Dark palps. Legs orange-brown, darkened at apical end of femora, and again from the middle of the tibia to the apical end. Halterium witha adark spot. General colour thorax yellow; head and abdomen orange; both three with black spots and stripes.

Posted by pjotr oosterbroek on 18-05-2012 14:31
#2

I would say this is Nephrotoma submaculosa, quite common in Spain.
See http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/ccw/ for more details and pictures for this species.
(for example search: Spain, Nephrotoma, habitus).
For more information or identification queries, please reply to p.oosterbroek@chello.nl). Thanks, best wishes.
Pjotr Oosterbroek

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 18-05-2012 18:17
#3

Many thanks Pjotr
Next time I will do your recommendations
Best wishes, too:)
Rafael