Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown Nematocera (19.10.10) --> male Trichocera annulata
Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-10-2010 04:35
#1
Hello!
I'm not even sure about the family (Keroplatidae?), this 5 mm midge belongs to. In a spider web in our garden (northwest Germany).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2010 00:04
Posted by xylo on 21-10-2010 07:28
#2
On the first look you may get fooled by thinking it is
Macrocera (Keroplatidae), but have a closer look at wing veins..... It is a male Trichoceridae.
so long,
xylo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-10-2010 07:42
#3
Hello, xylo!
xylo wrote:
On the first look you may get fooled by thinking it is Macrocera (Keroplatidae), but have a closer look at wing veins..... It is a male Trichoceridae.
Thanks a lot! I must admit, that on first glance "on location" I also thought it was one of the momentarily ubiquitous
Trichocera (*). But then on the PC it looked so - strange... (and had too short antennae for a
Macrocera). But that may be due to the unnormal wing posture in the spider's web.
(*) For example:
http://insektenfo...tid=108058
http://insektenfo...tid=108059
Posted by Andrius on 21-10-2010 18:52
#4
This is a male of Trichocera annulata Meigen, 1818 - rather common species and easily distinguished by the banded abdomen.
Andrius
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2010 00:04
#5
Andrius wrote:
This is a male of Trichocera annulata Meigen, 1818 - rather common species and easily distinguished by the banded abdomen.
Thanks, Andrius. I had suspected that after xylo's reply, but I did not know whether there were other species banded like this.