Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Macrocera (Keroplatidae)--Z Macrocera cf inversa
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 10-04-2011 21:02
#1
I found this Nematocera fly inside home.
The antenna looks as long as the body, about 1 or 1'5 cm long.
Can Grau, Beuda, Girona, Catalonia, NE Iberian Peninsula, UTM 31T DG7477, 395 m, 7h April 2011.
John Carr suggested could be Macrocera (Keroplatidae)
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 13-12-2018 23:56
Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-04-2011 09:42
#2
That's correct
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 12-04-2011 12:14
#3
It's possible to know, the sex, or maybe which species could be, looking at the black patches in the wing?
(Then how can I rename the picture of the fly to stand with the correct name, as we needed to accept...)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-04-2011 12:58
#4
It is a female, but I am not familiar with the Mediterranean fauna.
Posted by paqui on 19-08-2011 19:58
#5
hi, I tried with Lindner's series and it seems a "dark-legged" M. bipunctata, but all the pic seems dark,
can anybody tell me if those keys are still valid? I suppose that's a difficult question
thanks anyway for your atention
- edit: I see now M. bipunctata doesn´t appear at Fauna Europaea, I´ll look for synonyms
Edited by paqui on 19-08-2011 20:13
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 09-06-2017 23:36
#6
Maybe a female
Macrocera centralis, M. inversa, M. stigma, M. stigmoides
M. bipunctata is a junior synonim of
M. inversa
http://sciaroidea.info/taxonomy/47564
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 10-06-2017 00:01
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 13-12-2018 23:49
#7
I have been studying macrocera species and, following SĂ©guy 1940:
1) Ailes couvertes d'une pilosité microscopique uniforme, sans poils plus longs. (even if that is not visible the other way runs to a
cul de sac)
2) Ailes tachées, au moins une petite tache brune.
3) Ailes à extrémité claire.
(From now on plus Landrock in Lindner 1927)
4) Wings not only avec Une tache sombre près de la base de la cellule cu 1 +
Une tache sombre Ă la base de la cellule r5.
r1 not widened at the top !
Abdomen: tergites avec des bandes basales pâles!.
Ailes sans tache costale.!
Macrocera inversa (= bipunctata). Edw.!!
In fact Paqui Mars wrote me a private message telling me she thought it could be that species
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 14-12-2018 00:07