Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bibionidae - Bibio sp.?
Posted by tomsur on 21-10-2010 21:31
#1
Hello,
please will you help me with determination this Bibio sp.
Seen 01 October 2010, Malá Fatra , Terchová, Slovakia.
Thanks in advance, Tomsur.
Posted by tomsur on 21-10-2010 21:32
#2
2.foto
Posted by eurythyrea on 21-10-2010 21:32
#3
IMO it's Dilophus sp.
Nikola
Posted by rvanderweele on 21-10-2010 22:00
#4
If you look at the first tibia, you see a large apical spine in stead of an apical circlet of spines, so it is Bibio. I really don't know which species
Posted by eurythyrea on 21-10-2010 22:28
#5
Thank you Ruud!
Posted by Zeegers on 22-10-2010 10:50
#6
Autumn Dilophus from mountains are very interesting, many species like neglecta and borealis.
Please start collecting this material !
Theo
Posted by John Carr on 24-10-2010 23:42
#7
In temperate North America there are only three, closely related species of
Bibio that fly in October. Males of the species group are black and have swollen hind basitarsi as yours has. You may have a European member of the same species group. If you check literature records for
Bibio you should find very few species from late in the year. Here the two common, widespread fall species are
B. longipes and
B. slossonae.
Posted by Zeegers on 25-10-2010 21:30
#8
IN Europe, that would be Bibio clavipes and lepidus.
See other recent threads on this issue.
Can't tell which one this is.
Theo