Posted by gedra on 28-12-2009 23:16
#1
Female with red upper part of front leg - can it be Dilophus femoratus?
Found on west coast of Norway (Hordaland) in beginning of June.
Posted by Zeegers on 29-12-2009 17:28
#2
Looks like it, especially when it is from lower altitudes.
Dilophus is very difficult genus, impossible to be sure from picture.
Theo
Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 30-12-2009 20:00
#3
For Norwegian Dilophus species, see Skartveit 1996 or Skartveit 2004.
Skartveit, J. (1996) Distribution and flight periods of Norwegian
Dilophus Meigen, 1803 (Diptera, Bibionidae), with a key to species.
Fauna Norvegica Serie B,
43, 35-46. (available from
here)
Skartveit, J. (2004) Nordiske hårmygg (bibionidae). Larver og imagines.
Norske Insekttabeller,
17, 1-26. (available from
here)