Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Laphria Sp.
Posted by Gordon Jar on 10-09-2006 19:10
#1
The attached was photographed in South East England on 10/09/06.
It was sitting in the sun on an old sawn down tree. Close to it were small wasps laying eggs in small holes into the log. I formed the impression it was hunting these wasps but could as usual be entially wrong.
I have attempted to Id it and thought it may be Laphria marginata.
Regards
Gordon
Posted by Tony Irwin on 10-09-2006 21:19
#2
That's it! (but now known as
Choerades marginatus)
Posted by Gordon Jar on 11-09-2006 08:43
#3
Thankyou Tony.
I suspected the name had been changed but was unable to trace the new name.
Regards Gordon
Posted by Tony Irwin on 11-09-2006 17:54
#4
If you want to check on names of flies in the British fauna, use
http://www.dipter...search.php. Just type in the genus or species name, and you should get an answer. But remember that the ending can change, depending on the gender of the genus, so
Laphria marginata has become
Choerades marginatus. If you type in "marginat" the search facility will return both
marginata and
marginatus (as well as
immarginatus).
Posted by lweit on 16-09-2006 13:43
#5
Hey Tony
I often consult Fauna Europea, but in this database the name is Choerades marginata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Asilus marginata Linnaeus, 1758. Why the difference between this two database, FE know too the gender of this genus ??
Louis
Posted by Jan Willem on 16-09-2006 16:13
#6
Hi,
There seems to be some confusion about the gender of
Choerades. In several checklists the species names end on ...a, in a few other checklists the species names end on .....us.
On Fauna Europaea most species names in the genus
Choerades end on ..........a however there is also a species name ending on ...us (i.e.
C. fortunatus). So that seems rather strange to me. But since I have no idea at all about the gender of
Choerades, I don't know what is correct.
Jan Willem