Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Callicera macquarti --> Callicera aurata

Posted by Christine Devillers on 28-07-2023 15:03
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Checking again all the pictures I’d taken, I saw that the size of the antennal segments do not match with those of macquarti.
Here are some pictures where the antennal segments are better visible. The antennal segment 3 is about as long as antennal segments 1+2 together so it can’t be macquarti which has antennal segment 3 twice as long as antennal segments 1 + 2 together.

I think it is a female of Callicera aenea because :
- femora extensively black
- mesoscutum completely dull with 4 longitudinal stripes of dusting extending to the scutellum and hairs on posterior margin of scutellum as long as the scutellum

Christine