Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown (NL) > Achalcus thalhammeri

Posted by blaauw7 on 05-11-2020 15:58
#1

5 Nov 2020, Sky light, mid Netherlands...…..?

Gr Dick

Edited by blaauw7 on 18-11-2020 07:39

Posted by tristram on 05-11-2020 16:55
#2

Dolichopodidae

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-11-2020 23:09
#3

Achalcus, ? melanotrichus

Posted by blaauw7 on 06-11-2020 07:36
#4

Thank you Tristram and Paul. Saved the specimen.

Gr Dick

Edited by blaauw7 on 08-11-2020 09:15

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 06-11-2020 09:35
#5

Achalcus cinereus is better.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-11-2020 09:34
#6

That's why I put the '?' in

Posted by blaauw7 on 08-11-2020 09:14
#7

Thank you!!!

Gr Dick

Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-11-2020 19:30
#8

First suggestion was 'good', second suggestion was 'better', the final result is best''. After examination of the genitalia: A. thalhammeri (new for the Dutch list).

Posted by blaauw7 on 18-11-2020 07:31
#9

That's interesting news Paul! Nice. Thanks!
I submitted a photo of this fly to the gallery as Achalcus cinereus (latest photo addition). It must be changed now to A. thalhammeri

Gr Dick

Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-11-2020 08:03
#10

Okay. If you then correct female to male on Waarneming.nl we are all up to speed. ;)

Posted by Marc Pollet on 20-12-2020 01:41
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Check the key to Achalcus in Pollet (1996): this is certainly not A. cinereus, but might, indeed, be A. thalhammeri due to its unicolorous thorax. However, you can only achieve 100% certainty by collecting the specimen and compare it to reference collection material.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-12-2020 10:23
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Marc, the only way I could identify it a thalhammeri was because I had the actual specimen. ;)

Posted by Marc Pollet on 06-03-2021 23:20
#13

Dear Paul,

Great to hear this. Is this observation to be found in waarneming.nl? Then I could include it, together with the collectors and identifiers, in an upcoming paper on new doli species for the Netherlands? Any chance you might get a male as well, you reckon? Cheers, Marc

Posted by blaauw7 on 07-03-2021 12:39
#14

Hi Marc,
At the moment I am writing a small article about this new (male) doli species. I found it in my garden last year.
https://waarneming.nl/waarneming/view/202787279

Gr Dick