Posted by mwkozlowski on 04-02-2022 08:26
#1
Accurate miniature drawings of Joris Hoefnagel show various (often recognifsable) insects from central Europe. In this case he confronted two flies and a weevil (evidently Rhynchites auratus/bacchus). The left fly depicts an asiilid female (which one?, possible to say something?) but that on right looks more like an impossibly big (ca. 2 cm) empidid with strange yellow antennae. Any suggestions what could it be?
Posted by Chris Cohen on 04-02-2022 20:12
#2
The fly on the right is Molobratia teutonus. The fly on the left is an asiline, perhaps Tolmerus or something similar.
Posted by mwkozlowski on 07-02-2022 17:17
#3
Thank you very much, the dots on the abdomen are covered b y the wings....
Edited by mwkozlowski on 07-02-2022 17:19