Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Myopites male.
Posted by Pietro on 17-09-2017 21:10
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Sardinia, Villanova Monteleone 17 settembre 2017.
On Inula viscosa flowers.
Posted by Pietro on 17-09-2017 21:11
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Posted by Pietro on 17-09-2017 21:13
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Posted by Pietro on 17-09-2017 21:14
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Posted by Pietro on 17-09-2017 21:14
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Posted by Nosferatumyia on 18-09-2017 12:50
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In fact, I still have many problems with males. Females can have smooth or tuberculate aculeus that easily separates two groups. In any case, Mediterranean
Myopites remain a mess. Hardly anyone can give a positive ID for this males before the revision is done.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 18-09-2017 12:57
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The yellow (often brown) mesonotum is the character of stylatus/limbardae, which can be easily recognized also from long oviscape and smooth aculeus of female; all these flies look quite similar to stylatus, longirostris, eximia and inulaedyssentericae, but their geographic variability and host plants remain poorly understood.
Please keep on collecting by rearing from the host plant galls, it could give some progress to this study.
Posted by Pietro on 18-09-2017 17:40
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Ciao Valery,
Thank You wery much!