Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phortica variegata (NL)
Posted by blaauw7 on 13-10-2018 09:50
#1
Found today in the skylight behind my house, mid Netherlands. Phortica variegata ?
Gr Dick
Posted by blaauw7 on 13-10-2018 12:06
#2
2
Posted by John Carr on 13-10-2018 16:59
#3
It looks like
Phortica but I don't know how to distinguish European species.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 13-10-2018 20:44
#4
May need some genitalia preparation for species ID...
Posted by blaauw7 on 15-10-2018 18:12
#5
Thanks! Saved two specimen! Possible Phortica semivirgo?
Gr Dick
Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-10-2018 10:07
#6
External characters seem to be too variable for certain ID for these species. Male genitalia are conclusive, female genital structure supposedly too, but I dissected a female a while ago and I had trouble in associating it with either of the two species.