Posted by Paul Beuk on 20-10-2005 07:45
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Juergen Peters wrote:
Hello!
I am just going through my older photos checking for unidentified species. Perhaps someone can help me with these Nematocera of whom I am even unsure about the families (except the first one, which I think is genus Tipula, maybe fascipennis?). Thanks in advance for any hints!
All photos were taken in Ostwestfalen/Germany on meadows near a wood or in our garden.
This one was about three fourths the size of a Tipula oleracea, photo taken May-21, 2005:
[image1]
This is from May-24, 2004. Same species?
[image2]
I think so. Maybe a
Tiplua (lunatipula) species.
A darker, smaller, more slender species, photographed on May-25, 2003:
[image3]
I think a male of
Ptychoptera (Ptychopteridae).
A rather small black and red species which visited umbellifers on August-28, 2004:
[image4, image 5]
A species of the Keroplatidae, probably an
Orfelia.
And again a spring species (May-01-05) visiting milkweed flowers in our garden:
[image6, image7]
I think a female of
Ptychoptera (Ptychopteridae).
And I took the liberty of making all images visible, rather than showing the links. That makes it easier to answer the questions and (if we want) to discuss the identifications. :)