Thread subject: Diptera.info :: last Medetera's prey
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-09-2006 16:40
#1
Trips?
Posted by proctoss on 14-09-2006 17:17
#2
Yes, trips :o
Posted by Tony Irwin on 14-09-2006 18:31
#3
Or thrips ;)
Actually looks like
Limothrips cerealium (but I don't think I can say that with any certainty! :D)
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-09-2006 19:59
#4
Thank you Victor and Tony.
Nikita
I have one more view, may be of some use.
Tony, what part of your reply can I regard as sure:
Family - Thripidae?
Genus - Limothrips?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 14-09-2006 22:22
#5
Hi Nikita
Please don't quote me on that identification!
Limothrips just happens to be a common black thrips that is often around at this time of year, and most of the ones I catch prove to be this species.
In fact, looking more carefully, I think the legs on your thrips are too long, so I retract my former identification and will simply say Thysanoptera - a thrips.
It's interesting that
Medetera can quickly turn a thrips into such an unrecognisable thing as in photo 3. If I had not seen the first two images, I couldn't have begun to guess what the prey might be!:)
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 14-09-2006 22:34
#6
Thank you Tony.
1. OK, let it be Thrips vulgaris!
2. The distance between 1-st and 3-d image is 2 min. But shapeless black thing on 3-d image isn't thrips! It is full of thrips enlarged Medetera's mouth!
Nikita