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dark Empis sp.? (edit: Rhamphomyia sp.)
Robert Heemskerk
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Posted on 02-05-2010 22:52
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hi flyforum,

Last week I found this ~8-9 mm dark Empis(?) sp.
Any idea what Empis sp. this could be?

place: Amsterdam forest
date: 1-05-2010

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empis with Sminthurus sp.
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Not an Empis here but a Rhamphomyia, in my opinion it could be R. sulcatella.
 
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Why sulcatella and not one of the other species in the sulcata group?
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Thank you for your reaction KWQ and Paul,

So Rhamphomyia sulcata is also a possibility?

Then I would place this as a Rhamphomyia cf. sulcata in my album.


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Just a hasty intuition, because sulcatella is the most common one of this complex in Finland and the most familiar to me, which was a bad enough reason to suggest anything ...

Now as you say, it seems to lack the typical hairs in the upper part of the genital complex, so it probably is some other species in the group.
 
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And of course I also mixed some names, the common Finnish species I meant is sulcatina and sulcatella is unknown in Finland. What a bunch of names!
 
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I would refer to R. sulcatina.

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Thus you shared my first intuition, Igor!
 
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igor wrote:
I would refer to R. sulcatina.

Best regards,

Igor


mmm.., I can not find this species (R. sulcatina) in the Dutch specieslist? awkward
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