Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown Conopid
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 15-07-2007 20:32
#1
Hello,
can anyone identify this fly - perhaps Conops quadrifasciatus?
Found near Frankfurt / Germany. Sorry, I have only this one picture from the back.
Best regards
Andreas
Posted by David Clements on 18-07-2007 14:57
#2
The yellow scutellum rules out
Conops quad, and most other
Conops in Europe except
scutellatus or
silaceus. I would guess this to be
Conops scutellatus, which is not a common species (and absent here in the UK).
Posted by Zeegers on 18-07-2007 16:57
#3
Or it is a Leopoldius ?
Theo Zeegers
Posted by David Clements on 18-07-2007 19:53
#4
Could be a
Leopoldius, but I am pretty familiar with the European 'black & yellow'
Leopoldius (new key in preparation), and this specimen does not look right for this genus to me.
Posted by Andreas Haselboeck on 19-07-2007 11:22
#5
Thank you very much for your feedbacks concerning my fly. G?nter Schwendinger already pointed out the problem of differentiation between Conops and Leopoldius. Without a foto of the front or at least from the side it is almost impossible to classify it. So I will put it into my archives as unknown.
Best wishes