Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sciomyzidae, Dichetophora finlandica
Posted by NakaRB on 25-02-2016 18:14
#1
Russia, Moscow region, 27.09.2015
Edited by NakaRB on 27-02-2016 17:09
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-02-2016 09:47
#2
Dichetophora sp. (single pair of scutellar setae, whitish arista, pedicel not stongly elongate).
Posted by jonas on 26-02-2016 10:12
#3
Dear NakaRB,
what a beauty!
I do not know if you were capable of collecting this species? Was it collected after photography?
It is an extremely interesting looking specimen!
Very curious.
All the best,
Jonas
Posted by jonas on 26-02-2016 10:23
#4
btw, I agree with Paul's Dichetophora,
but no obliterata nor finlandica in my eyes.
Other scio-fanatics online? :-)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 26-02-2016 18:32
#5
I see nothing against
D. finlandica.
Posted by NakaRB on 27-02-2016 17:06
#6
jonas wrote:
Dear NakaRB,
what a beauty!
I do not know if you were capable of collecting this species? Was it collected after photography?
It is an extremely interesting looking specimen!
Very curious.
Thanks :) Unfortunately I do not collecting insects...
Edited by NakaRB on 27-02-2016 17:07
Posted by NakaRB on 27-02-2016 17:08
#7
Thanks to all!
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 28-02-2016 00:17
#8
and in Moscow region D. obliterata is absent (at least I had never collected or seen collected specimen).
Posted by jonas on 28-02-2016 19:48
#9
Thanks for your comments both,
D obliterata I know very well, very abundant in Belgium -especially from coastal dunes in autumn. I agree, this is certainly not D obliterata.
D finlandica I only know from one specimen I've seen in Spain (formerly not known to Spain :-) ) and from the holotype and 8 paratypes in Brussels.
What strikes me in this specimen are the extremly dark wings (compared to type series) and rather pointy antennae (I want to check this against the types, for I cannot remember the types to have that pointy antennae?)...
Anyhow, I do not dare to call this finlandica without actuall material in hand ;-)
cheers!