Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Anthomyia or Limnophora? -> Anthomyia cf. procellaris
Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 00:52
#1
Can a species be defined here?
Only this one photo available, mid June on a meadow in Vienna.
Edited by Carnifex on 16-01-2023 16:31
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-01-2021 13:11
#2
Hello Lorin,
Anthomyia cf. procellaris male. If I remember correctly, there are one or two very rare lookalikes, but I don't know, which species.
Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 13:45
#3
Thanks Jürgen.
20min apart but the same spot:
Maybe the same individual
Edited by Carnifex on 16-01-2023 16:31
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-01-2021 13:55
#4
Carnifex wrote:
Maybe the same individual
There are dozens of them over the warmer season every day here on a railing (only about 5 m long) over a small creek. But only males. I can't remember having ever seen a single female at that location.
https://insektenf...post415697
Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 15:46
#5
Within the
pluvialis-complex, the rarer species closely resembling
A. procellaris should be
A. imbrida and
A. bazini.
Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 16:25
#6
In this paper dealing with the
pluvialis-complex, only for *A. procellaris* it is stated that the three post-sutural black spots can be confluent, while in the others the spots should be clearly separated.
https://www.resea...thomyiidae
Edited by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 16:25