Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Conopidae
Posted by Cecile on 22-08-2007 12:08
#1
Can you help me identify this elegant Conopidae : Conops sp. or Psychocephala sp.?
Thanks in advance!
6/08/2007, in an fallow land, near Lyon (France)
Posted by Cecile on 22-08-2007 12:09
#2
another pict
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 12:39
#3
As the "cross vein at the basis of cell R connects to the underlying cell at alf its length" I would say Conops sp. Snout seems to fit a Conops as well. :)
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 12:53
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 12:50
#4
I will take a risk: Conops vesicularis. (I don?t see any silverish stripe at the sides in thorax.)
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 22-08-2007 15:11
#5
No, this is a Physocephala allright, the cell R is much longer than it seems.
The animal has no silvery stripe, but a yellow head above the antenna, that makes it Physocephala vittata!
greetings,
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2007 16:09
#6
hmm... it would be better to view full and clear (specially apically)
wing venation to be sure. But if the cell R is really much longer, that would make it really a Psycocephala. :)
Posted by Cecile on 22-08-2007 19:13
#7
Thanks Jorge and Gerard! ;)
It's really difficult to make a non equivocal picture
in natura! :(
Edited by Cecile on 22-08-2007 19:14
Posted by Zeegers on 22-08-2007 19:43
#8
this is, again, Physocephala chrysorhoea.
All still according to Seguy, I'm just working through his key.
Theo
Posted by Cecile on 22-08-2007 19:56
#9
OK. The silverish stripe is very fine but all is clear for me ! Thanks Theo! :)
Posted by Zeegers on 23-08-2007 07:37
#10
Read 'chrysorrhoea' (double rr)
Theo
Posted by jhstuke on 31-08-2007 21:04
#11
It is not P. chrysorrhoe but a species of the vittata group - I guess P. vittata s. str.
Jens-Hermann