Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Microdon?
Posted by mwkozlowski on 15-04-2009 23:40
#1
I found this yesterday under bark of an old pine stamp with some Formica around...
Edited by mwkozlowski on 15-04-2009 23:41
Posted by Andre on 17-04-2009 12:00
#2
Absolutely!
Posted by caliprobola on 17-04-2009 12:39
#3
ID to species level should be possible with this picture and with the right key i guess.
Posted by Andre on 17-04-2009 12:57
#4
Just with the picture, I don't know. But I hope you can rear them, or some of them? I never ID'd these pupae. Wait for a specialist on Microdon to reply or contact them yourself. Good luck :-)
Posted by mwkozlowski on 18-04-2009 19:58
#5
Andre wrote:
Just with the picture, I don't know. But I hope you can rear them, or some of them? I never ID'd these pupae. Wait for a specialist on Microdon to reply or contact them yourself. Good luck :-)
I am not a keen dipterologist and I left them in situ, shame on me!
Posted by Andre on 19-04-2009 12:57
#6
Go back asap and try to gently collect a pupa. Make pics of it and rear it (store it at a dry place, room temperature). Write down collection date, location, ant species, place of ants nest etcetera. Maybe find a dipterist near you to help you.. Always interesting, these species!
Posted by viktor j nilsson on 20-04-2009 08:31
#7
I do not have any key here, but I think that the deep reticulations and the long posterior spiracle is used to idenitify M. analis? But i think that this species uses Lasius platythorax as host? Or maybe I am messing everthing up in my head when I cannot see the key.
Rear them! Beautiful flies and pupae.