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Pinned Hybomitra nitidifrons confiformis, Tabanidae
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Posted on 29-05-2009 19:13
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Hi, I got my first Tabanidae this summer :-) May 29.2009 Loviisa, Finland.

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And here is the rest of this fly.
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female Hybomitra lurida, the eaarlierst species in the year.
It nicely shows the black shining subcallus,characteristic for this species.


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Thank You Theo for a new Tabanid species to my collection Grin

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Theo: Are you sure?
Perhaps H. nitidifrons
 
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I thought about that.
This specimen is unusually reddish for lurida.
On the other hand, I have never seen a nitidifrons with such a large amount of black on the subcallus.
Though I do agree on second looks the subcallus is not completely shining.
SO, no I'm not sure (any more), the specimen is either a very orange lurida or a very shining nitidifrons. You have both species in Canada as well, so any help would be great.

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I looked into it some more: it is a very interesting case.

I have 3 females ?lurida from Sweden which are very large and orange. They have all the subcallus completely shining and the frons hardly converging.

This case is even more intermediate between lurida and nitidifrons: the frons is distinctly converging, if the pic is not fooling us. And the subcallus is not completely shining, as mentioned before.

SO, for the moment, in my opinion a very interesting and intermediate piece. Showing that lurida and nitidifrons, so very distinct in Central Europe, blurr together in Scandinavia.


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And after the season You will find this nice fly with all the others from Your post office Smile Then we shall re-open this thread. Interesting, so interesting.

Jari
 
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Zeegers wrote:
You have both species in Canada as well, so any help would be great.

Theo


I have a few specimens of nitidifrons confiformis (identified as conformis) from Norway that are a good match to the above specimen. Also, if the above specimen was collected in North America it would a 100% H.n. nuda.
I have not seen any European lurida but all the NA specimens I have seen are very dark on the abdomen, the specimen in the Tabanidae Gallery on this site
SEE HERE
is typical of NA lurida and as you can see is quite a bit different from the above fly.
 
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Yes, typical lurida is very different indeed.
On the other hand, a very orange bimaculata is very different from a typical one, Lyneborg even described it as colini spec. nov, but still is bimaculata. We would need to rear these flies under different temperatures....
I have rather orange lurida from Europe (though not as orange as this one).

As for North America, yes, nitidifrons there has much more black on the subcallus, that is right. In Europe, at least in Central Europe, the black is usually ver restricted.


So, I will look into this matter this winter again.

Maybe the genitalia will help, but I'afraid not.


Theo
 
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This is an ooold thread, but I just found it while searching for some other stuff. I would say this is definitely H. nitidifrons confiformis . It is a very common species in Finland, and usually the first species to appear in the summer (Jaris' specimen in from May, a time when few other species are flying in Finland).

The amount of pollinosity on the subcallus varies a lot; this specimen is near the maximum amount of "shine", while at the other end some specimens of H. nitidifrons confiformis have a completely pollinose subcallus.

H. lurida is quite different in habitus; it is a small, dark, compact species, one of the smallest Hybomitras (here in Northern Europe) while H. nitidifrons is larger than most.
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I have seen many more, now, and I totally agree with Kahis.

Theo
 
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Thank You ! I will rename my specimen.

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