Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Long wings Bombyliidae from Canary Islands
Posted by gustavopt on 23-12-2010 14:04
#1
Anthrax sp?
Thanks
Gustavo
Posted by rvanderweele on 23-12-2010 16:37
#2
no, it is not an Anthrax. At the moment I am not able to tell which genus it is. I should check it later.
Nice looking fly!
Posted by David Gibbs on 23-12-2010 18:33
#3
looks like
Heteralonia but no member of this genus known from Canaries, nor are any of closely related
Exoprosopa. So don't know, will have to be keyed, specimen needed.
Posted by rvanderweele on 23-12-2010 18:34
#4
Indeed, looking at the photo, the first thing I thought was Exoprosopa, but I have no experience whatsoever with the Bombyliid fauna of the Canary Islands.
Posted by gustavopt on 23-12-2010 19:12
#5
Ruud and David, thanks for your help.
Could be
Canariellum brunnipenne?
Posted by rvanderweele on 23-12-2010 19:35
#6
Remark in Hull's work: Canarie.llum Strand, with type of subgenus Anthrax hrimnipennis Macquart (1838) was described from the
Canary Islands by Becker (1913a) under the name Canaria Becker. I am unable to pass upon the validity by which Strand changed the name. Frey illustrated this fly by a photograph in one of his papers. It may be recognized by the unusually long, very dark wings, and the antenna ; third segment small, base small and bulb- ous, style long and quite slender ; first segment strongly rounded.
it is possible, you may say
Posted by David Gibbs on 23-12-2010 20:04
#7
mention of Frey has put me on to this (thanks ruud).
this is
Cannariellum brunnipenne Macquart
there is a photo in Frey 1936.
do please upload to gallery.
Edited by David Gibbs on 23-12-2010 20:09
Posted by rvanderweele on 23-12-2010 20:14
#8
It is an amazing insect. The length of the wings are truly remarkable.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 23-12-2010 20:19
#9
I only has an incomplete "Die Dipterenfauna der Kanerischen inseln und ihre Probleme", Frey, 1936... it has a page that indicates where we can find a drawing of the bombyliid
Canaria brunnipennis Macq, (in Tafel II) but the page of the drawing I do not have... do you have it in paper version, David?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 23-12-2010 20:19
#10
In Australia, there are also some bombyliids with an incredible wingspan . ;)
Posted by gustavopt on 24-12-2010 15:37
#11
"Anthrax brunnipennis" draw in
Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries of Webb & Berthelot.
