Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Asilinae Cerditini male--> Tolmerus pyragra

Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 23-05-2017 06:12
#18

Hi, guys :)

Sorry I didn't reply this thread, I have been out for days and didn't see it...

Yes, this is my good old friend Tolmerus pyragra ;), one of the most common autumn Asilinae in Spain. Which, by the way, drove me mad at first but Reinoud IDed it for me years ago now and, as he points out, it is not so difficult to recognize once you get used to it.

Although it is far from perfect, i still use Engel 1930 a lot. But maybe Piluca knows a key in Spanish and maybe she could write one herself :-)


Yes, I use Engel a lot too. He makes me often very angry but still is the best around. Reinoud is being very polite talking about this work ;) It is not only far from being perfect, it is far from being simply 'good' for the Iberian Peninsula. But dear Engel did what he could in his time and we are thankful that at least this work exists.

And, unfortunately, no Iberian key exists :( Writing useful keys for the Iberian Peninsula is my golden dream but first we need to know what really exists here. A long way to go yet...