Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Conopidae - Psycocephala cf. lacera
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2007 00:10
#1
Hi
* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.08.19
* size - 6 mm (medium fly)
* habitat - open land
* substrate - on Mentha sp. flowers.
This is Psycocephala sp.
Which one?
EDIT---> Title changed from "Conopidae - Psycocephala sp. which one?" to "Conopidae - Psycocephala chrysorrhoea" and then finally to "Conopidae - Psycocephala cf. lacera"
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 14-09-2007 23:44
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2007 00:13
#2
other view...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2007 00:15
#3
another
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 21-08-2007 11:21
#4
this seems to be no easy. ;)
I just know to say which is cannot be. P. nigra and P. rufipes are discarded.
But the problem is that I don?t know how is the degree of variation for these species. :S
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 13:58
#5
I have doubts in this one as well.
Now it seems for me to be a Conops. (seeing wing venation)
If this confirms, can this to be C. flavifrons?
Flavus is yellow in Latin. Yellow (totally) frons.
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 22-08-2007 16:08
#6
Hello Jorge,
on your first picture it looks like the animal has the silvery stripe on the side of the thorax, and that would make it Physocephala chrysorrhoea!
Greetings,
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 19:27
#7
So I have 3 specimens of P. chrysorrhoea. Two small (about 6 mm - 7 mm) and one much more bigger one. :)
All of them show some variation in the colour, specially in tergites.
Posted by Zeegers on 22-08-2007 20:40
#8
This is again chrysorhoea.
The difference should be clear by now.
Theo
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 20:49
#9
Yes. It is clear like water (not polluted lol).
Posted by jhstuke on 31-08-2007 22:09
#10
It is a P. cf lacera.
Jens-Hermann
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 01-09-2007 01:15
#11
Jens-Hermann. Please provide the characters for P. lacera.. I have the specimen. It would be great to have final confirmation and the inevitable question... Why not P. chrysorrhoea?