Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bombyliidae from Sardinia

Posted by SardinianBoy on 02-07-2007 17:41
#1

Sorry for the bad pic:
Sardinia (Oristano) at Tirso River's mouth.

Thanks!
Daniele ;)

Posted by David Gibbs on 02-07-2007 18:10
#2

I have never seen this beautiful species but it is sufficienty distinctive to get somewhere just from the literature. I believe this to be Exoprosopa rutila, but this assumes that there are no closely similar species.

Posted by SardinianBoy on 04-07-2007 08:57
#3

Thanks David!
On Italian Check list I find http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/invertebrates/families/Bombyliidae.html Exoprosopa rutila (Wiedemann, 1818), but on faunaeur http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=130095 Exoprosopa rutilla (Pallas & Wiedemann 1818).
Which is the right name?
Anyway this specie occurs in Sardinia!
Thanks again,
Daniele;)

Edited by SardinianBoy on 04-07-2007 09:02