Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bombylidae for ID, SE Spain --> Conophorus fuminervis

Posted by David Gibbs on 24-02-2012 17:04
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There seem to be three names that could be applied here, Conophorus pictipennis, C. macroglossus and C. fuminervis. However no one key includes them all. I suspect that one of these names is a synonym.

This fly clearly has a shorter proboscis than the individuals in the gallery http://www.dipter...to_id=3229 so by comparison it will key to fuminervis in Engel and Paramonov, neither of these works include pictipennis. In Seguy it also runs to fuminervis, but that work omits macroglossus.

The gallery specimens are probably macroglossus and this one fuminervis, neither seem to be pictipennis as defined in Seguy.