Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unusual female Bibio specimen

Posted by xylo on 05-06-2013 17:04
#1

Hi all,

any chanches to go further than Bibio sp.?!? [Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate), malaise trap, 29. V 2013]

Posted by xylo on 05-06-2013 17:04
#2

close up wing:

Posted by Zeegers on 05-06-2013 17:56
#3

Yeap, well spotted

Options are: venosus, reticulatus or nigriventris.

Venosus is easy to check on spurs on tibia 1.
Nigirventris is easy to check on the short antenna (flagellum with 5 segments only).

My guess is that it is nigriventris.


Theo

Posted by xylo on 06-06-2013 09:04
#4

Hi Theo,

Many thanks for narrowing it down! Indeed, it is a specimen of B. nigriventris!!!

Posted by Zeegers on 06-06-2013 10:15
#5

Great to hear !
( I found 2 myself this spring, that's why I recognized it so easily)


Theo