Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sweden: Pseudolyciella, male (with genitalia)

Posted by viktor j nilsson on 12-01-2010 23:44
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Hey,

this time a male Pseudolyciella - either P. stylata, P. pallidiventris or P. subpallidiventris.

South of Sweden, the Island Öland. 1st-26th august.

I get terribly confused by the genitalia figures in Shatalkin (2000).
From the illustration, the cerci and paramere of P. stylata looks monstrous - long, straight and narrow like needles! Although Shatalkin´s figure is drawn laterally and my picture of the genitalia is from ventral side, I just can´t accept that this could be P.stylata. But nonetheless - I can only see a single paramere lobe, and subpallidiventris and pallidiventris is supposed to have "lobes of parameres subequal in length". What am I missing?
Thanks,

Viktor

Edited by viktor j nilsson on 12-01-2010 23:48