Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stomorrhina lunata?
Posted by Isidro on 22-10-2007 14:09
#1
I found this flies always near Inula flowers. Last time I couldn't photograoph it, but yesterday I get a picture. The habitat is salty prairie of Suaeda vera and Phragmites australis, surrounded by dry steppe-lands. The fly was in the leaves of a strange Inula sp. with succulent leaves (adapted to salty environment).
I find it very similar to the gallery one Stomorrhina lunata, but I don't know if can be more similar species here.
Near Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, about 200 meters high, dry continental-mediterranean climate.
Thanks ;)
Posted by Zeegers on 22-10-2007 20:23
#2
No, there are other Rhiniinae but there is only one Stomorhina lunata (that is: in Europe).
Theo
Posted by Isidro on 22-10-2007 22:07
#3
Thanks... then, not Stomorhina? What genus can be?
Posted by Isidro on 24-10-2007 14:55
#4
More opinions? What genus is it?
Posted by Xespok on 24-10-2007 15:47
#5
I think this is Stomorhina lunata, a male. That is what Theo said.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-10-2007 15:56
#6
Stomorhina lunata! Theo told you, ;)
Posted by Isidro on 24-10-2007 23:24
#7
Oh! I understood that Theo tell me that this is another Rhiniinae, and that in the genus Stomorrhina the only European species is lunata.
Sorry, my english... :p
Posted by Paul Beuk on 25-10-2007 07:07
#8
It could have been interpreted in that way, so you're not to blame. :)