Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Myopites from southern France

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 16-08-2024 12:25
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Yes, Myopites longirostris Lw.
"Myopites eximia Seguy" is not a valid name, under synonymization with the first name right now. Identification is difficult, needing pleural pattern and female ovipositor microscopy.
Myopites longirostris in the Mediterranean part has an early spring generation ("bonifaciae"), with darkened femora, narrow brown crossbands, often widely brown scutellum, abdominal tergites, and possibly a different additional host plant.

I'd appreciate your observations in April-May there and 96% alcohol-preserved specimens for DNA from that season.
Thank you in advance.
The revision is to be finished in a month, but we could publish some addenda later!
Thank you in advance!

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 16-08-2024 12:46