Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pinned Hybomitra nitidifrons confiformis, Tabanidae

Posted by Zeegers on 31-05-2009 18:04
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I looked into it some more: it is a very interesting case.

I have 3 females ?lurida from Sweden which are very large and orange. They have all the subcallus completely shining and the frons hardly converging.

This case is even more intermediate between lurida and nitidifrons: the frons is distinctly converging, if the pic is not fooling us. And the subcallus is not completely shining, as mentioned before.

SO, for the moment, in my opinion a very interesting and intermediate piece. Showing that lurida and nitidifrons, so very distinct in Central Europe, blurr together in Scandinavia.


Theo