Posted by amaira on 19-08-2018 10:17
#1
Is this Gymnosoma dolycoridis? Or the more common G. nudifrons?
About 6-7 mm.
Near Stockholm, Sweden, Yesterday.
Edited by amaira on 14-10-2018 08:13
Posted by amaira on 19-08-2018 10:17
#2
Parafrontalia has a narrow stripe all the way down to the antenna. Nudifrons?
Posted by amaira on 20-08-2018 10:21
#9
That´s intresting. G. rotundatum is not found in Sweden earlier?
Posted by amaira on 14-10-2018 08:20
#10
This Gymnosoma was nudifrons after all. I send the fly to Zeegers who had kindness to look closer at it. This is his answer:
" I had a second good look.
As said, based on the frons, your specimen is intermediate.
So we have to try other features. These are only 90 % reliable. But if
you combine these (totally dark scutellum, darkened wing, form of
genitalia), all point towards nudifrons.
SO, I am inclined to think that this is an aberrant female of G. nudifrons.
In any case, it cannot be considered a definitive (or probable)
rotundatum. So, false alarm, after all, but it is not weird that I was
misled by the pictures !"