Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae, Gymnosoma? from Romania
Posted by cosmln on 25-07-2007 09:28
#1
Hi,
last week succeded to make some photos on this Gymnosoma? , can be identified further?
Baile Herculane (limestone, Fagus forest, ~400 m). size aprox ~6mm.
thanks in advance,
cosmln
Posted by ChrisR on 25-07-2007 10:31
#2
Definitely
Gymnosoma but I can't go any further than that because they are a very difficult genus - even with a specimen. The genitalia and the degree of dusting on the frons and the thorax are all very significant features when making an identification :)
Posted by cosmln on 25-07-2007 13:08
#3
Chris Raper wrote:
Definitely Gymnosoma but I can't go any further than that because they are a very difficult genus - even with a specimen. The genitalia and the degree of dusting on the frons and the thorax are all very significant features when making an identification :)
Hi Chris,
thanks for the answer.
no photo of genitalia, photo of frons exist but... anyway i have learned something.
cosmln
Posted by Zeegers on 25-07-2007 13:47
#4
AS Chris rightly put it, difficult to tell.
It does not look like rotundatum, more likely either clavatum or dolycoridis. However, this is guesswork and not science.
In any case, a male.
Theo
Posted by cosmln on 25-07-2007 14:19
#5
Zeegers wrote:
AS Chris rightly put it, difficult to tell.
It does not look like rotundatum, more likely either clavatum or dolycoridis. However, this is guesswork and not science.
In any case, a male.
Theo
Hi Theo & Chris,
again thanks for the help.
this the only photo from the face. maybe help if not... another try (maybe i will collect this fly).
cosmln
Posted by Zeegers on 26-07-2007 06:45
#6
This is definitely NOT rotundatum, but either dolycoridis or maybe clavatum. It helped, but the conclusion remeans the same.
Theo