Thread subject: Diptera.info :: grey/brown fly with dark shiny snout

Posted by Sundew on 20-01-2008 01:54
#1

Hi,
Here I do not know where to put it. At a first glance I sorted it whith Rhingia (don't laugh!), but I have a lot of real Rhingia photographs that show only a very superficial resemblance. So please let me know the name of this nice fly, and I won't forget it anymore...
Many thanks, Sundew

Edited by Sundew on 20-01-2008 20:51

Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-01-2008 06:53
#2

Hello, Sundew!

Take a look at this one:
http://www.dipter...to_id=2647

Edited by Juergen Peters on 20-01-2008 06:54

Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-01-2008 09:05
#3

It would be convenient if you then also told us that it is Stomorhina lunata of the Calliphoridae. Then we would not have to visit the link first. ;)

Posted by Sundew on 20-01-2008 13:26
#4

I am delighted! A great new fly for me.
Sundew, very grateful

Posted by Andre on 20-01-2008 15:19
#5

Can you tell us where you made this picture?

Posted by Sundew on 20-01-2008 15:26
#6

Sure, all the pics I am posting at the moment come from my summer photoshooting on the Baltic Island of Usedom. This one is from a small town named Karnin in the southwest part of the island.
Cordially, Sundew

Posted by Andre on 20-01-2008 17:24
#7

In faunaeur.org this species still has the status 'doubtful' for Germany. Thought it's confirmed for countries like the Netherlands, Poland and Finland. But then again, not for countries like the Baltic states, Sweden and Denmark...

Posted by Zeegers on 20-01-2008 17:35
#8

Faunaeur.org is definitely wrong in this.

Stomorhina lunata has made a tremendous expansion northwards in the last, say, 10 years. Twenty years ago I would have been amazed by this record, now I'm not the least surprised.


Theo

Posted by Andre on 20-01-2008 17:49
#9

I didn't say I am surprised :p
But nervertheless your addition is useful info for sundew I hope :)

Posted by Kahis on 20-01-2008 20:14
#10

The single Finnish record of very old and from a greenhouse, so it may be imported. Then again, I expect we will soon find this fly expanding into the country... :)

Posted by Sundew on 20-01-2008 21:10
#11

That's all very interesting indeed. Another indication of global warming!
Though this species's occurrence is obviously no longer surprising, I wonder whether, in general, interesting records that are presented in the forum are tracked by the specialists in charge. Once I had a query by Danny Wolff who wanted to add my finding to a distribution map, but the locality proved already known. I do not know which institutions carry out mapping of the taxa and who should be informed (and possibly presented with a dead specimen). On the other hand is, as is often pointed out, our knowledge of the European dipteran fauna still rather incomplete. So I consider this forum, with the many collaborators, a treasury, but who will pick the real jewels?
Best wishes, Sundew

Posted by crex on 20-01-2008 22:01
#12

I expect all flies found in Sweden will end up in Artportalen, although only Syrphidae is available so far. I know there are National Report Systems also in Netherlands, Denmark, Romania and New Zealand.

Posted by Andre on 20-01-2008 23:28
#13

As far as I know, diptera.info is not concerned as an official publication board. So if one has found interesting stuff, best is to publish it on paper. Nevertheless I asume that if anything interesting is shown here, the right people will pick it up if needed.