Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Help ID 2

Posted by Mizar on 22-09-2018 08:03
#1

River mouth Volturno - Caserta, 9 June.

Posted by Mizar on 22-09-2018 08:04
#2

Mizar wrote:
River mouth Volturno - Caserta, 9 June.

Posted by Mizar on 22-09-2018 08:05
#3

Mizar wrote:
Mizar wrote:
River mouth Volturno - Caserta, 9 June.

Posted by ecology on 22-09-2018 17:35
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Looks like Chloropidae

Posted by Mizar on 23-09-2018 22:35
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Thanks, I think too. But is it possible to identify the species? I've never seen a specimen with orange scutellum.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 24-09-2018 09:18
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Several Cetema species are similar in colour, but I think the extended frons is a more helpful character

Posted by Mizar on 25-09-2018 09:40
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Thank you. So is it probably Cetema?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 25-09-2018 23:21
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No, not Cetema, which lacks the protruding frons. John and Barbara Ismay have had a look at the photos and suggest it is a species of Capnoptera (I'd not heard of this genus). All three European species occur in Italy, and I have no idea how to tell them apart.

Posted by Mizar on 27-09-2018 00:18
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I didn't know this genus too. Thank you very much!