Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Asilidae Iran IV - also in courtship -->> Heteropogon

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 19-11-2018 13:47
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Great pictures Johan! I agree with Piluca that some important features are not well visible. What key did you you use Piluca? I would certainly add H. ornatipes as a possibility. The white hair on the front tarsi of the male, as can be seen in the first pictures, is a character for ornatipes but we can't see the mid legs very clear which should have bushes of black hairs on the middle of the tibia. The single male does seem to have these at the apex of mid femur and on the middle of the mid tibia, but we can't see the white hair on the front tarsi ;-( But these hairs are mainly on the inner side, so maybe this male is hiding his white socks!