Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Acrocera sanguinea by J. Mota Almeida

Posted by Isidro on 16-08-2008 21:01
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Today. Alfajar?n, Monegros region, Zaragoza, Spain.
Cited species for Monegros region:
Astomella hispaniae
Cyrtus gibbus (this is clearly not this fly)
Ogcodes gibbosus

Size: about 3 mm.

Habitat: salty pond with Tamarix, Phragmites, Microcnemum, Linum, Suaeda, Artemisia...
Many many grasshoppers of many many species in the zone (Acrocerids are grashopper-parasites, not?): Mioscirtus wagneri, Calliptamus barbarus, Calliptamus wattenwylianus, Sphingonotus coerulans, Sphingonotus azurascens, Sphingonotus arenarius, Oedipoda charpentieri, Euchorthippus elegantulus, Dociostaurus jagoi, Pyrgomorpha conica...

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Can be identified?
Thanks
Regards

Edited by Isidro on 17-08-2008 11:55