Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Odontomyia with green abdomen

Posted by Carlos Galan on 02-07-2019 22:12
#1

Hello,

this specimen comes from Valencia (Spain), and it was in an Achillea filipendulina inflorescence in a garden close to orange tree fields and mediterranean shrubland, at 5 Km from the sea. Does anybody knows the species? If special characters are needed I have the specimen.

Thanks and sorry for the quality of the image.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 04-07-2019 11:06
#2

I think the only Odontomyia-like soldierfly that can have an (almost) entirely green abdomen is Oplodontha viridula...

Posted by Carlos Galan on 11-07-2019 20:52
#3

Thanks a lot Paul!,

I was watching later more specimens in the same locality, with the abdomen with the usually typical dot on the upper side of Oplodontha viridula. It seems that is this species.