Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Haematopota pseudolusitanica?
Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:20
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Hi,
Could this be Haematopota pseudolusitanica?
location: Miranda do Douro, Portugal
date: 09/06/2021
Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:21
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:21
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:21
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:21
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:22
#6
mid femur
Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:23
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hind femur
Posted by Rui Andrade on 23-07-2021 23:23
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Posted by Zeegers on 24-07-2021 11:19
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It is a male, so the swollen first antennal segment means nothing.
Pseudolusitanica is to me a cryotic species, I would start with considering ocelligera.
Theo
Posted by Rui Andrade on 24-07-2021 14:34
#10
Hi Theo, thank you for your input.
In the key of Fauna Iberica H. pseudolusitanica is separated from H. crassicornis/ocelligera/eugeniae by the colour of femora and by the presence of greyish spots on tergite 2 (absent in the other species). It was especially because of this last feature that I thought of H. pseudolusitanica.
If H. pseudolusitanica is discarded, I indeed arrive to H. ocelligera, since scape is without greyish dust in H. crassicornis and its shape is different in H. eugeniae.