Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Psilidae - Chyliza vittata. Hungary
Posted by eurythyrea on 29-05-2011 23:47
#1
Hello to everybody!
I really do not know the family of this 7mm long fly. Picture were taken today, the fly was sitting on an orchid's stem in a mixed oak forest.
I will be glad if anyone could help me. Thank you!
Edited by eurythyrea on 30-05-2011 23:09
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 30-05-2011 09:46
#2
Psilidae. I think it is
Chyliza vittata (with non stripped thorax).
Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-05-2011 12:22
#3
Would be interesting to see if this unstriped version is actually the same species as the striped version, because so dfar the only unstriped versions I have seen were from Central Europe. Does anyone else have info on striped and unstriped
Chyliza vittata?
Posted by eurythyrea on 30-05-2011 19:30
#4
Thank you Stephane, I forgot to turn on the "notify me in email when a reply..." and today went to the NatHistMus of Budapest. With luck I met L. Papp and showed him the pictures. He told me the same species,
Chyliza vittata, then we saw an old literature (Árpád Soós I think), there he wrote "larva develops in stems of Orchis spp." So it was not an accident that I found it on a newly sprout
Epipactis!
Paul, L. Papp told me if he was a Psilidist, would be study deeper this genus, because it could be uncleared.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 30-05-2011 19:37
#5
Thanks for the feedback.
Posted by oceanlis2000 on 31-05-2011 16:21
#6
Great Photos!
Do you know which orchid species this is?
Posted by eurythyrea on 01-06-2011 07:19
#7
oceanlis2000 wrote:
Great Photos!
Do you know which orchid species this is?
Thanks! Yes, This is an
Epipactis purpurata.