Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beautiful nematocera

Posted by Filex on 10-09-2007 20:40
#1
Hi everybody

Any help with the identification of this nematocera? It was found between brambles in a Quercus ilex gallery of a dried brook in Girona province (NE Spain).

Thanks in advance

Miquel

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-09-2007 20:58
#2
Ptychopteridae

Posted by Filex on 13-02-2008 20:33
#3
Hi

I have recuperated this old thread.

At the time I posted it, I accepted that, as proposed, this might be a Ptychopterid. However, this week I got some literature on Nematocera and after checking the vein pattern and confronting Tipulidae, I think this is a female of Dictenidia bimaculata.

I am attaching two additional pictures of this same species, one of the same female from a different angle and one of a male found some months later upstream.

What is most surprising to me is the convergence of appearance between Dictenidia and Ptychoptera. I think that the third picture I am attaching could actually belong to a female of Ptychoptera contaminata found at about 1000 m altitude in a deciduos forest of Montseny mountain, Barcelona, Spain.

Could anyone confirm these identifications?

Thanks a lot in advance

Miquel

Posted by Filex on 13-02-2008 20:34
#4
The Dictenidia male

Posted by Filex on 13-02-2008 20:34
#5
The female of Ptychoptera contaminata

Posted by Xespok on 13-02-2008 21:26
#6
Tipulidae for the images except the last one is ok I think.