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I appreciate ID

The picture was made 18-3-2007
H?bitat: Deciduous woods, 5o mts river
Corunha- Spain

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Bibionidae.
Bibio sp.

NOTE: Mosca is the word "fly" in Portuguese and Spanish. ;)

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What's the word for Mosquito ?
Had been more appropriate.

Theo

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In Portuguese Mosquito/Mozzie is.... mosquito! :) Gnat is also called Mosquito. We have not special words for all flies. :S Specially gnats, midges, mosquitos .... in Portuguese, the common name is the same for midges, gnats, mosquitos: mosquito (a big mosquito and "boring" is called melga). [One person that harass a lot it calls a "melga" (?s uma melga! = you are a "melga")] :)

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Hello,

With the ending of the front tibia, would it not be rather a Dilophus sp.?

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I?m not sure, pierred.

Jorapavi - Chrysopa perla is not diptera.. (it is Neuroptera > Chrysididae)

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Hi Pierre


What you think to be the tibia 1, is actually femur 1.
Tibia 1 is hardly visible.
It's a Bibio alright, Dilophus is much less hairy.


Theo

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Jorge

Chrysopa are not Chrysididae (Hymenoptera), but Chrysopidae :)

In Spanish are very few common names for insects, only in the butterflies.

I agree with Dilophus, more than Bibio...

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Thank you to all for the interesting information

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I know, isidro! :)
It was a misspelling! I was, really, thinking in Chrysopidae, but I have written Chrysididae. :)

I have seen almost all families of Neuroptera known for Europe. I saw Chrysopidae, Nemopteridae (beautiful!), Hemorobiidae (not usual to find them...), Myrmeleontidae.
Perhaps I have spotten Ascalaphidae, but not sure. :)
I never found Mantispidae (one of my favourite!) and Osmylidae. :(

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he he, I win you

I've found Myrmeleontidae (at least 5 species, but this summer I looked for Palpares libelluloides and I don't found it :( ), Ascalaphidae (only one species, not very common but not very rare), Nemopteridae (only one species, I am eager to found the other three Iberian species, but in my zone don't exist), Mantispidae (one into my house!!! and other a few days ago, a friend give me one), Chrysopidae (the only family really common), Hemerobiidae (not very rare), Coniopterygidae (difficult to see), Osmylidae (only one exemplar, many years ago, caught by a Neuropteran specialist who carried it to my city) and Dilaridae (one exemplar at night light in a camp), and also in the other "neuropterans", Sialidae (many exemplars in only one place and day, many years ago) and Raphidiidae (only one adult many years ago in a camp, and gew days ago, various larvae)...

I never found Sisyridae, Neurortrhidae and Inocelliidae...

(I apologize for bothering you :p )

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Raphidiidae... is not Neuroptera :P but it is now recognized as a proper order: Raphidioptera ;) I spotted it too.
if you want to continue this thread better to put this subject in NON-DIPTERA .
Hey, remember, this is not a challenge :P