Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Heptatoma pellucens

Posted by crex on 18-06-2006 20:47
#1
A female Tabanidae from 2006-06-17 just north of Stockholm. This is when it was alive. The soft grey layer is a plastic film used to keep it captured. The other pictures are taken afterwards, when it was dead. Is it possible to ID? TIA!

Edit: Changed subject (Hybomitra sp?)
Edited by crex on 19-06-2006 11:23

Posted by crex on 18-06-2006 20:48
#2
Another view of same individual.

Posted by crex on 18-06-2006 20:48
#3
The head of the same fly.

Posted by Zeegers on 19-06-2006 10:02
#4
A female longcorn horsefly Heptatoma pellucens
Look at those eyes !

Theo Zeegers

Posted by crex on 19-06-2006 11:24
#5
Thank you very much!