Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Periscelididae, Periscelis sp.
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 13-05-2008 20:03
#1
I caught this Periscelis sp. in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on sap of a bleeding tree (Aesculus hippocastanum).In the netherlands we have P. annulata and P. winnertzi, but what is the difference between the species?
Greetings,
Edited by Gerard Pennards on 13-05-2008 20:04
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 13-05-2008 20:04
#2
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Posted by phil withers on 13-05-2008 20:18
#3
This looks like
annulata, although the quoted differences are slight (and maybe not consistent)..make genitalia are definitive. There may be more species in Europe; Laszlo Papp has at least two new species to describe.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-05-2008 23:24
#4
Hanging Oporto wine traps at a height of some (about 5 m) meters in trees like oaks, or India chestnuts (or whatever) to catch periscilidids it's a total waste. :(
Use
Jopen Koyt beer instead. :p
Posted by Jan Willem on 14-05-2008 07:29
#5
Last year I collected 4
Periscelis specimens (2
P. annulata and two
P. winnertzi) in wine traps hanging at a height of about 5 m in oak trees, so not a total waste :). I didn't collect any in the beer traps hanging in the same oak trees :(.