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 Unknown Bombylidae -> B. cruciatus female
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| Fernando Pires |
Posted on 02-03-2017 00:13
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Member Location: Posts: 92 Joined: 18.09.16 |
Good evening, I'm again reaching out for your help regarding an ID. I took this picture in July 2011, at a locality called Carvalhal, located near Grândola, around 100 Km south of Lisbon. It was taken on a coastal dune, in a pinetree wood. From everything I could find on the net, the most similar would be a Triplasius sp.? If so, could you please help me with the species? Thanks in advance for any hints. Kind regards, Fernando Fernando Pires attached the following image:  [260.52Kb] Edited by Fernando Pires on 07-03-2017 20:37 |
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 02-03-2017 09:02
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 Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Not Triplasius but Bombylius to me. The abdominal pattern reminds me of B. cruciatus, but the rest of the creature is off. I have never seen a female B. cruciatus with such thoracic pattern. Might be a local form or simply variability though. Or even a different species. But the knowledge of Iberian Bombylius is in state of chaos (I am working on it though), so I think won't be easy to be sure of its identity at the moment. Sorry I cannot help further  Perhaps somebody else can recognize it...
Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 02-03-2017 09:04 |
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| Fernando Pires |
Posted on 02-03-2017 21:25
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Member Location: Posts: 92 Joined: 18.09.16 |
Muchas gracias Piluca, Just as a possible confirmation, I have found a photo of a female B. cruciatus female on flickr (https://hiveminer.com/Tags/bombylius,macro/Interesting), and it looks just like the one in my photo. I think that I'll tentatively classify it as a cruciatus female. Thank you so much for your help. Please let me know if you need some records of Bombyliidae for your work. I have GPS coordinates for every observation I made with the correspondent photos, and I will be happy to share them with you. Kind regards, Fernando |
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 02-03-2017 21:36
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Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Hi, Fernando  Well, the one in the link looks like Bombylius cruciatus indeed. So yours should be too  However, I would be happier with other opinions  I will be delighted to see your pictures You can get in touch with me through this e-mail: pilucaaf@gmail.comThanks!!  |
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