Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dark Platycheirus

Posted by Roger Thomason on 16-06-2009 14:10
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Found this little female Platycheirus on Iceland Poppy in the garden this morning...never seen one as black as this before...Anyone know what it is???

Posted by Roger Thomason on 16-06-2009 14:11
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Posted by Andre on 05-07-2009 22:57
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Though the light is strange... abdomen seems very dark.. I'd make a female P. albimanus of this one...
And then I realise... it looks like an intersexe. Look at the tibia/tarsae... they look like they are from a male. And also the tip of the abdomen looks a bit like it is deformed.

Edited by Andre on 05-07-2009 23:01

Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-07-2009 23:13
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I thought it a bit different...

Cheers Andre