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 Lampromyia!
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| picotverd |
Posted on 15-03-2008 02:01
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
This photo was taken yesterday near -180 km- Barcelona about 115 meters... Asilid? Any idea? Thank you!
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| Xespok |
Posted on 15-03-2008 07:48
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
An Asilid with such a proboscis? An interesting fly, but I doubt it is a Dioctria.
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 15-03-2008 14:14
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
Looks like Lampromyia (Vermilionidae) |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 15-03-2008 19:11
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
I have now looked at Stuckenberg's key, and think it is certain that this is L. iberica, which he said (in 1998) was "rare in collections, specimens date from more than half a century ago". So, nice to see it's still around...go back and collect another one for me ! |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 15-03-2008 22:49
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
Thank you very much to all! I did not collected because i am just a nature photographer. |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 16-03-2008 18:47
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
Should i move the post to general diptera? and how, deleting? |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 16-03-2008 20:01
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
it is Vermileonidae. Lampromyia!!!! luck you! I'm trying to find this one since 2006.  |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 17-03-2008 23:01
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
I forgot to add that I think this deserves to go in the gallery. |
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| crex |
Posted on 17-03-2008 23:26
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
picotverd wrote: Should i move the post to general diptera? and how, deleting? Only Paul Beuk can move threads, so when he get's a minute to spare ... |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 18-03-2008 09:39
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I will try to come back and take better photos, and try to find a copula... but these days are very windy... |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 18-03-2008 22:59
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Today i went back and could find just one, and he was holding his own leg must be! Have you seen this before? How did he missed the two missing legs?
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| picotverd |
Posted on 18-03-2008 23:04
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
I don't know how to include all photos in an only post so i do it separately:
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| picotverd |
Posted on 18-03-2008 23:09
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
Although i have problems with my macro flash this fly is easily to take photos because you can get very close to it and doesn't move! I have rotated this photo. The spec was not collected. picotverd attached the following image:  [161.25Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 19-03-2008 01:16
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
possibly a predator that attacked this Lampromyia. |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 19-03-2008 18:12
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
3 possibilities: it's not it's own leg (this is after all a predator !); the hind legs were somehow damaged at hatching (the specimen is very teneral - compare the colouring of the previous photos) and any meal is better than none; or escaped predation but hung on to leg hoping to glue it back on (must find some tree resin...) |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 28-03-2008 20:16
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Hi, today sunny but very windy i took some photos, i think she was laying eggs...
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| picotverd |
Posted on 28-03-2008 20:25
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But may be it was an emerged new fly because it looks like very fresh... Anyway the fly was near these hole-tramps: i introduced an ant and about 10 seconds something -have you seen the film Dune- happened or appeared and the ant is sorrounded by sand... very impressive... picotverd attached the following image:  [101.81Kb] Edited by picotverd on 28-03-2008 20:26 |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 28-03-2008 23:43
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
This will be the larval habitat...mini Shai-hulud ! |
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| picotverd |
Posted on 31-03-2008 20:04
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Member Location: Posts: 1697 Joined: 28.10.07 |
The larva...
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| phil withers |
Posted on 31-03-2008 23:53
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
Worth preserving: I'm not sure the larva has ever been described. |
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