Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Laphria flava or vulpina -> Laphria flava
Posted by Gansucha on 04-05-2018 22:07
#1
Ukraine, Rivne region, on April 29.
Is it possible to determine a species of these photos?
Edited by Gansucha on 11-05-2018 18:17
Posted by Gansucha on 05-05-2018 21:52
#2
Dark hair on the hips shows that the picture is Laphria flava?
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 07-05-2018 01:48
#3
I would agree. The last picture seems to be a very fresh specimen.....
Posted by libor on 07-05-2018 09:54
#4
Jaromir Bosak do not accept L. vulpina, he includes it as color form of L. flava. Your opinion is different, Reinoud?
Libor
Posted by Gansucha on 07-05-2018 17:52
#5
Laphria looked very sluggish, so he gave himself a photo from different angles.
Slowness maybe due to the fact that the Laphria was just born ?
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 09-05-2018 18:26
#6
So it is all the same creature??? Then the first pictures must have been taken later, when creature got its colour.
@Libor: I have no experience with L. vulpina, but Jaromir might be right. On the other hand....sometimes different species look very much alike and sometimes there is rather much intraspecific variation.
Posted by Gansucha on 10-05-2018 06:24
#7
Yes, it's one person. The difference between pictures is only a few minutes.
Other shows can be found on Flickr.
Edited by Gansucha on 10-05-2018 06:27