Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Empididae
Posted by Isidro on 15-06-2009 16:08
#1
Location: Valdelinares, Teruel, NE Spain. 1900 meters above sea.
Habitat: Over a flower. In high numbers above different flowers.
Date: Yesterday.
Size: about 6-7 mm.
Thanks
Isidro
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-06-2009 19:02
#2
Empis (Xanthempis) semicinerea species group
Posted by Isidro on 15-06-2009 23:07
#3
Another one? But this is much more greyish than the E. gr. semicinerea that I've posted some days ago...
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-06-2009 07:18
#4
The species complex is, surprise, a complex one and (AFAIK) needs to be sorted comepletely. All
Xanthempis with completely grey thorax belong to that complex, even though other colouration may be different.
Posted by Isidro on 16-06-2009 16:37
#5
Then I have two different species... unidentifiable both? I hope that not!!!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-06-2009 11:28
#6
There is soime literature on species of this group but nothing that covers them all at the same time. There has been a steady flow of new species described in
Xanthempis over the past few years, including some in the
semicinerea species complex.
Posted by Isidro on 17-06-2009 12:04
#7
Thanks Paul, then is impossible to identify any Empis of this subgenus by image, I imagine...