Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tabanus bromius
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| crex |
Posted on 08-09-2007 18:14
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Location: Midwest Sweden (Dalsland) Date: 2007-JUL-15 Habitat: Garden Male Tabanus sp, I think. Edit: Changed subject (Tabanidae (1)) crex attached the following image:  [162.94Kb] Edited by crex on 11-09-2007 18:48 |
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| crex |
Posted on 08-09-2007 18:41
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Same place and date. Maybe same species (could even be same individual). The light makes the same fly look very different depending on how it shines.
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| crex |
Posted on 08-09-2007 18:42
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
The second one once again.
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 11-09-2007 16:41
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19296 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Correct, male T. bromius Great pics, crex Theo |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 11-09-2007 17:03
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 Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 664 Joined: 08.02.07 |
This guy is so clean, not a hair out of place, not even a pollen grain. Looks as though he is unflown - perhaps even recently emerged from the garden. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 11-09-2007 17:05
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
great pics here! congratulations. But I want to ask one interesting question, I think. Recently I heard some reports saying that they spotted tabanids licking minerals on the rock! Then I asked if they were eating some lichen? Or other kind of plant on the rock. They told me that the tabanid was really licking the mineral. Is it usual, Theo? This was reported from Australia to me. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 11-09-2007 18:11
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19296 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I don't know. But in Australia everything is different. Moreover, you are talking about some Scaptia- which is in Pangoniinae, a totally different ball game Theo |
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| crex |
Posted on 11-09-2007 18:38
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Thanks for the input, boyz!  |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 11-09-2007 21:31
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
The Australian Tabs licking rocks - are they after iron? I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that as well as the sustenance of the protein in a blood meal, female tabanids also need the traces of iron. (But I may be making it up or mixing it up with some other vague memory.)
Susan |
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