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Juergen Peters
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Posted on 03-03-2006 18:56
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Hello!

I was just examining some older photos and would appreciate your opinion(s) about the identifications. Thank you very much in advance!

All photos were taken here in Ostwestfalen/Germany.

The first beautiful, violet-blue fly with banded eyes I found on May 30, 2003 on a wood clearance. Could it be Heptatoma pellucens?

insektenfotos.de/Heptatoma%20pellucens%20(Purpurringbremse),%20Portrait_001.jpg

Another photo:
http://insektenfo...e)_005.jpg

Here a male and a female Tabanus ("normal" size, 15-20 mm):
http://insektenfo...en_001.jpg
http://insektenfo...en_002.jpg (edited: no Tabanus, but Hybomitra sp.)

Can all these flies be assigned to Haematopota pluvialis:
http://insektenfo...en_001.jpg (edited: H. cf. crassicornis)
http://insektenfo...en_004.jpg

insektenfotos.de/Haematopota%20pluvialis%20(Regenbremse),%20Weibchen_006.jpg
Edited by Juergen Peters on 05-03-2006 00:11
Best regards,
Jürgen

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Posted on 04-03-2006 09:59
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Dear Juergen


Horseflies again !

Your male Heptatoma is correct.
The male Rinderbremse is not bovinus, but probably autumnalis.
These males can be very reddish on abdomen.
The female Rinderbremse is probably more a Hybomitra

The first Haematopota is not pluvialis, most likely crassicornis.
It is much to dark.
The seond could be correct.

Please understand that the ID of Hybomitra and Haematopota from pictures is very difficult. One needs top quality pictures, preferably more than 1 from different angles.

So please keep sending in, these horseflies


Gruesse

Theo Zeegers
 
Juergen Peters
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Hello, Theo!

Zeegers wrote:
Please understand that the ID of Hybomitra and Haematopota from pictures is very difficult. One needs top quality pictures, preferably more than 1 from different angles.


Thanks a lot for your help! I hope I get a new (better) camera before the diptera season really starts (although even on sunny days now in winter there are nearly always some Nematocera and flies on the wing :-)).
Best regards,
Jürgen

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