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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 08-03-2007 18:10
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Senegal, Sin Saloum, mangrove.
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 08-03-2007 18:15
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
This Hydrophorus has interesting behaivour. Males protect their females as in case of Odonata, males ride on females during long time. Other males (without pair) try to get males out of females (in most cases without succes). But, trying not to lost its female, male hunting from female too, like on this photo...
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| Andrew Whittington |
Posted on 08-03-2007 23:36
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 Member Location: Snowdonia Posts: 110 Joined: 30.01.07 |
Brilliant photography!!!
-----o0o----- Andrew E. Whittington https://flyevidence.co.uk/ |
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| Igor Grichanov |
Posted on 09-03-2007 10:50
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 Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 1773 Joined: 17.08.06 |
Maybe, Hydrophorus praecox (Lehmann, 1822) ** Type locality: Germany: Hamburg. Palaearctic: England, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech, Slovakia, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Azores, China, Iraq, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Israel, Mongolia; Oriental: China, India; Australian: Australia, French Polynesia, New Zealand; Afrotropical: Aldabra, Cape Verda Is., Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, Rodriguez, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Gambia, South Arabia, Mauritania, St Helena, Nigeria * Igor Grichanov |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 09-03-2007 11:03
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Unfortunely (I hoped to find something more exotic in Senegal ) you are right - t1 ventraly with apical spine.Thank you Igor. Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Igor Grichanov |
Posted on 09-03-2007 15:41
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Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 1773 Joined: 17.08.06 |
Anyway, new for Senegal!
Igor Grichanov |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 09-03-2007 16:19
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Two more points to say: 1. t1 ventral apical spine is slightly visible on female on first image. 2. t1 ventral apical spine of male is not visible, but this male's spine is exatly in depression on female's thorax between halter and posterior spiracle. When male hunting from female back, the only part of male body which position never change is t1 ventral apical spine! Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 10-03-2007 23:15
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Looking on 2-nd photo my daughter told me that she thinks that male do not hunting from female back, but simply trying to stole female's prey. It seems to me that this explanation is either more cynical and more realistic. I told my daughter: 1. I thank her. 2. I wish her better husband. Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 10-03-2007 23:30
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Nikita It's certainly what I thought when I saw the photo  (They are fantastic photos btw) Susan |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 11-03-2007 00:10
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Being a man, I'm too simple-hearted to analyse sexual behaivour I'll always consult with woman in future
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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