Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae, Euleia heraclei?
Posted by treebeard on 14-05-2020 20:29
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Slovakia, Banska Bystrica, 14 May 2020, riparian gallery, on Prunus padus
Than you in advance
Matej
Edited by treebeard on 14-05-2020 20:30
Posted by treebeard on 14-05-2020 20:31
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Posted by Sundew on 18-05-2020 00:48
#3
The wind pattern is very typical, so you should be right! It is the brown summer morph, the spring morph is black (mesonotum, scutellum, abdomen). I'd not expected it to appear already in the middle of May.
Regards, Sundew
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 18-05-2020 10:24
#4
Yes, it is!
The body colouration may depend on the season and temperature of pupal development: entirely black, dark brown with yellow scutellum or entirely orange (Morocco)
Posted by treebeard on 18-05-2020 18:07
#5
Thank you both!
I have a picture of spring form (if I was right, I did not ask for confirmation then) from the same site from 11 May 2017. What is strange, this season is quite cold in Slovakia, however, winter and early spring were warm.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 18-05-2020 18:27
#6
Yes, it is also
E. heraclei