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Chloropidae, Platycephala planifrons
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JariF |
Posted on 26-08-2008 18:04
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Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 2072 Joined: 20.01.06 |
Hi, this 8mm long fly looks like Chloropidae, Platycephala. August 26.2008 Helsinki, Finland. Jari JariF attached the following image: [62.07Kb] Edited by JariF on 27-08-2008 04:55 |
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conopid |
Posted on 26-08-2008 18:31
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Yes I'd agree that that is a likely id. Nice fly.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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JariF |
Posted on 27-08-2008 04:54
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Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 2072 Joined: 20.01.06 |
Thank You Nigel, Nice indeed, a real "frogface". We have two species in Finland, planifrons and umbraculata and the shape on the antenna turns this one to planifrons. Jari |
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von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 18-05-2013 17:44
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Member Location: Bielefeld, Germany Posts: 431 Joined: 04.11.07 |
Platycephala planifrons (Fabricius, 1798), female, Chloropidae. The multitude of dark punctures on the frontal triangle and scutum are identical, the length of the projecting frons and the shape of 3rd antennal segment are characteristic, too. The different species are not always easy to distinguish and identification should be confirmed by checking the male genitalia after the article of Beschovski (1980): Acta zoologica bulgarica 15: 72-76. Larvae develop in reed stems resulting in the die-off of the whole stem and all leaves above the single larva.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 18-08-2014 18:49 |
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