Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Xanthochlorus tenellus ?

Posted by Eric Steckx on 20-06-2015 21:53
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Aywaille ( B ) - 14.06.2015

Xanthochlorus tenellus ? or something else is possible ?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-06-2015 12:37
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I can only confirm the genus from these pictures.

Posted by Eric Steckx on 22-06-2015 13:21
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Thank you Paul

Doesn't come X. ornatus with a darker mesonotum ?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-06-2015 20:52
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There are more than two species. ;) You can just rule out ornatus

Posted by Eric Steckx on 22-06-2015 22:45
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Yes, but fulvus and luridus are far east from Belgium.
Remains ultramontanus (from France according to Fa Eu, but which part ?), not known from Belgium ... yet ;).

Thank you Paul

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 23-06-2015 07:48
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I see only this alternative:
3. Surstylus in lateral view curved in an arc; epandrial lobe slender and not bilobed (Fig. 13). Prescutellar patch usually well defined in both sexes....... tenellus (Wiedemann)
- Surstylus in lateral view almost straight; epandrial lobe bilobed with ventral lobe itself trilobed apically (Fig. 11). Prescutellar patch often reduced or absent in female ........................... silaceus Chandler et Negrobov (2008: Dipterists Digest 15: 34, British species)

Edited by Igor Grichanov on 23-06-2015 07:49

Posted by Eric Steckx on 28-06-2015 20:38
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Thank you Igor
X. silaceus is not (yet) known from Belgium, but ...