Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Gymnosoma, Jerusalem
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 07-11-2007 13:54
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
This one might have the prey of a salticid. I know the pin is too big, but I didn't punch it all the way through.
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 07-11-2007 13:55
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 07-11-2007 13:55
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 07-11-2007 13:57
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 07-11-2007 21:43
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19292 Joined: 21.07.04 |
This should be Gymnosoma atrosterni Kugler, described from Israel. Never seen it myself Theo |
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 08-11-2007 13:31
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
Thank you! Quick as always!  Was the species described in 1971? There is only one result in google with the year, so I'm not sure. I'm glad I showed you something new.  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 08-11-2007 15:59
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19292 Joined: 21.07.04 |
WEll, I see it in both databases: http://www.faunaeur.org/ and http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/diptera/names/searchno.htm Theo |
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| zcuc |
Posted on 08-11-2007 16:34
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 492 Joined: 08.10.07 |
GlassOWater, You were confused by a typo. search for "Gymnosoma acrosterni". Be note that this tachinid parasites on Acrosternum millieri and Nezara viridula. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 08-11-2007 16:45
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Nezara viridula has so many enemies.  The famous Trichopoda pennipes also attacks the hemipteran.And maybe these: Eutrichopodopsis nitens, Trichopoda giacomellii, T. nigrifrontalis and Ectophasiopsis arcuata - but there is not certainty about these. |
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| GlassOWater |
Posted on 08-11-2007 19:06
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 117 Joined: 26.09.07 |
Thank you both I did know it was G. acrosterni, as I just read about Acrosternum in the book hoping that I would find something useful. But I searched for "Gymnosoma acrosterni" only, so I wouldn't get other species from that genus. And that cuts of fauna euroupea. About the parasites... seeing that N. viridula are pretty easy to get (They are common and grow perfectly on pepper bushes - my father has tonnes of those), and that tachinids are also common... Getting some of them to lay their eggs on the bugs wouldn't be too hard, no? |
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