Posted by Rupert Huber on 19-10-2009 20:01
#1
Hello to all!
This one looks quite different from all the Tabanids I know from Europe. I wanted to catch it, but unfortunately (for me, not for it, of course) it was faster than me.
About 10-12mm
11.8.2009, Ecuador, Prov. Pichincha, near Mindo, about 1300m asl
Posted by Keith Bayless on 20-10-2009 05:28
#2
Tribe Diachlorini;
Dichelacera (
Dichelacera) sp. This subgenus has 52 described species and many more undescribed, so I can't put a species name on the fly in this photo. Many, but not all, species in this genus have this distinctive yellow/brown or black stripes, yellow & brown wings, bright green eyes, and a long dorsal projection on the antennal flagellum.
It is in the same tribe as
Philipomyia and
Dasyrhamphis which you would find in Europe. Diachlorini is probably paraphyletic with respect to Tabanus, Haematopota, and related genera, which is why I'm working on the phylogeny of the tribe for my thesis.
If you are collecting horse flies, I would love to have any preserved in alcohol you can spare. Thanks.
Edited by Keith Bayless on 20-10-2009 05:30
Posted by Rupert Huber on 22-10-2009 09:10
#3
Thanks a lot, Keith, for all that information.
I have to disappoint you with the specimens, because I'm just somehow beginning to collect (hopefully I will seriously start next season) and yet have got only about a dozen of Middle European and 2 Ecuadorian ones (yet to come here), all of them dry.