Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown Bombylidae -> B. cruciatus female

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 02-03-2017 09:02
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Not Triplasius but Bombylius to me. The abdominal pattern reminds me of B. cruciatus, but the rest of the creature is off. I have never seen a female B. cruciatus with such thoracic pattern. Might be a local form or simply variability though. Or even a different species. But the knowledge of Iberian Bombylius is in state of chaos (I am working on it though), so I think won't be easy to be sure of its identity at the moment. Sorry I cannot help further :( Perhaps somebody else can recognize it...

Edited by Piluca_Alvarez on 02-03-2017 09:04