Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Odontomyia (fm. Stratiomyidae)

Posted by zcuc on 31-03-2008 00:53
#1

How about this?

Edited by zcuc on 31-03-2008 22:13

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 31-03-2008 00:53
#2

WOW!! Stratiomyidae! I must go there! :D
Somewhere around Odontomyia I think.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 31-03-2008 00:58

Posted by zcuc on 31-03-2008 01:14
#3

Are they rare? Here in Israel I found lots of them flying around. B)

Posted by komarik on 31-03-2008 06:36
#4

Odontomyia flavissima Rossi? I catch seen the same near Novorossiysk - NE Black Sea coast, middle june, low-mountain ulmus-fagus forest, on fabaceae flowers (Coronilla, Doricnium)

Posted by zcuc on 31-03-2008 22:12
#5

Thanks Komarik,
Do you know how it's possible to verify sp. level?

Posted by Zeegers on 01-04-2008 19:36
#6

I'm not an expert here, but to me it looks more like the related genus Oplodonta.


Theo

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 01-04-2008 20:43
#7

Well, I have similar specimens caught in Greece in 2005, and they were identified by Ben Brugge from the Amsterdam Museum as indeed Odontomyia flavissima.
Whether there are more similar looking species I don't know.
Greetings

Posted by Zeegers on 02-04-2008 17:42
#8

I told you, I'm not the expert !


Theo

Posted by zcuc on 02-04-2008 18:00
#9

Thanks to all for the identification help. :D