Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai. Limnophora prey

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-12-2007 16:01
#1

It is Limnophora innocua

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-12-2007 16:06
#2

What about prey, Chironomidae?
L.innocua is large Limnophora

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-12-2007 16:45
#3

Is it really a dipterous prey?...

Posted by Kahis on 11-12-2007 17:32
#4

A micro-moth perhaps?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-12-2007 17:35
#5

Looks rather like a small plant hopper to me.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 12-12-2007 12:10
#6

Even Tony keep silence :(
May be one more view helps?

Posted by Kahis on 12-12-2007 12:37
#7

Black is right: it is a homopteran.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 12-12-2007 13:27
#8

Thank you Kahis and Dima.
Dangeros fly this Limnophora is!
May be superfamily of prey?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 12-12-2007 18:33
#9

You're asking a bit too much ;). Maybe you'll pick the remains of its meal next time? I'd say Derbidae, though.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 12-12-2007 18:44
#10

Hi Dima.
Exgauster was full of material, so I decided do not collect the fly with prey (today I collected in rather empty exgauster Pompilidae + sprider prey - both pinned :D)
Derbidae from which superfamily?

Posted by Xespok on 12-12-2007 19:02
#11

Derbidae are typically larger. I think this creature is maybe 3 mm or so. Seems to be too small.

But my idea was also Derbidae, if it is an Auchenorryncha.

But I was more thinking about Sternorrhyncha. Maybe some Psylliidae, Triozidae, or rather the family that this creature belongs to. Once i knew the family, but forgot the info. I am so unintrested in Sternorrhyncha you know ;)



Some Derbidae from Japan.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 12-12-2007 20:19
#12

Well, picture number 3 seems to be the clearest, and it does show a body like that of an auchenorrhynchan bug, but it also shows a hairy wing margin, which is not something I can remember seeing in a bug. So I am wondering whether it could be a small trichopteran or a moth. That would also explain the number of wing veins that there appear to be - too many for most bug families.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 13-12-2007 03:48
#13

Thank you Jere, Dima, Gabor and Tony.
I hope to come back to this wonderful place (Khao Chamao tiny NatPark - just for Diptera) with empty exgauster specialy for Limnophora innocua (or also L.fallax and L.prominens)
Nikita