Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dolichopodidae

Posted by Isidro on 05-08-2012 17:57
#1

1st August 2012
in the vegetation of a fresh and rapid river near Isavarre, Lerida, NE Spain (Pyrenees)
help in ID please!
Thanks

Posted by John Carr on 06-08-2012 00:37
#2

Was he just mating? Normally the sex organs are folded under the abdomen. Some Dolochopodinae.

Posted by Isidro on 06-08-2012 07:02
#3

No, it was not mating when it landed on the leaf.

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 08-08-2012 06:55
#4

Dolichopus

Posted by Marc Pollet on 18-08-2012 01:03
#5

Isidro,

To make things complicated: I would not exclude Hercostomus pilifer, which has also largely yellow antennae and a Dolichopus-like cercus. If your specimen has not bristles on its hind metatarsus, it might well be this species. By the way, I have collected this species myself nr Formigal in the Spanish Pyrenees some years ago. Please consider.

Cheers,
Marc