Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Morellia sp.(hortorum) (M) ID'd by Stephane Lebrun
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-07-2010 19:37
#1
Found in the garden on Ribes Bush. Next to where it landed a small caterpillar was dodging in and out of the leaf which it had curled around itself. When the fly got too close it would disappear into the fold in the leaf.....how SAD am I to sit and watch that for entertainment for 10 minutes...on a scale of 1-10....about a 9.. ;)
Regards Roger....Easily entertained.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 08-07-2010 22:29
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-07-2010 19:37
#2
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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 08-07-2010 20:51
#3
Seems to be the male
M. aenescens indeed.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-07-2010 20:59
#4
Thanks once again Stephane :)
Roger
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 08-07-2010 21:36
#5
I think Stephane talked rubbish for this one : there are too much p. setae on fore tibia for M. aenescens. I think it is
Morellia hortorum.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 08-07-2010 22:28
#6
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
I think Stephane talked rubbish for this one : there are too much p. setae on fore tibia for M. aenescens. I think it is Morellia hortorum.
WHAT ! A Frenchman talking rubbish and admitting it...a new concept ;) It must have been picked up off me Stephane....( well the talking rubbish bit anyway)...oh shit, I've just admitted it too....I'm working on it....:|