Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phaonia mediterranea?

Posted by Rui Andrade on 09-04-2016 23:05
#5

Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
P. mediterranea is less common than Ph. errans or Ph. valida, so we should start with more probable possibilities ;)


Yes, definitely. :)

I was reading about these species and I think this is not P. valida because the female of that species does not have interfrontal bristles and in this pictures they are present, I think (on facebook the pictures are bigger and it is easier to see). Also in P. valida the basal segments of the antennae are yellow, and here they seem to be dark.

Maybe this is P. errans, everything seems to fit well. The flight period also fits better with P. errans.