Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Rhagio scolopaceus?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 03-01-2008 01:17
#1

Hello!

Helga Becker gave me the permission to post this photo from June 2006 (Hessen, Germany). I am not sure, if this is a female R. scolopaceus. Is seems a little bit slender to me, doesn't fit my "idea" of R. scolopaceus, but I am not sure. Can something be said from this small pic? Thanks!

Edited by Juergen Peters on 03-01-2008 01:17

Posted by Zeegers on 03-01-2008 19:53
#2

Too small to be sure.
It's a female and probably your 'idea' of scolopaceus is based on males.
That might explain it.


Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 03-01-2008 20:18
#3

Zeegers wrote:
Too small to be sure.
It's a female and probably your 'idea' of scolopaceus is based on males. That might explain it.


Thanks, Theo! I had already seen females, too (and recognized, this was one), but they still seemed to me less gracile.