Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Big Croatian asilid
Posted by nick upton on 05-12-2010 20:02
#1
Can anyone suggest a genus, maybe even a species for this large robber fly photographed in Croatia, near the coast in a scrubby limestone area? Several emerged soon after sunrise, hunting very close to the ground with a deep buzzing sound and resting/scanning from stones on the ground. This female had caught a small solitary bee.
23.7.2010 c 2.5cms Croatia, Zadar province.
Posted by nick upton on 08-12-2010 21:43
#2
And here's a male, same location same time, probably same species.
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 10-12-2010 18:12
#3
Genus has to be Machimus...Well, i tried Engel and to no avail maybe this could be M. cf modestus or cf thoracicus. I hope someone else will react too.:|
Posted by nick upton on 10-12-2010 18:25
#4
Many thanks Reinoud for your help on this. Getting it to genus helps a lot. I have now found a record of M. modestus from the former Yugoslavia, but not for M thoracicus, but that doesn't mean it's not there! Maybe someone else will comment.
Edited by nick upton on 10-12-2010 18:26
Posted by Quaedfliegh on 10-12-2010 18:40
#5
thoracicus (in Fauna Europaea spelt thoracius) is known from only Hungary.