Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae: Hydrotaea albipuncta ? => H. dentipes group(female)
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:50
#1
Degeberga Sweden, in garden. 2019-09-01
Edited by skrylten on 06-09-2019 11:24
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:50
#2
dorsal
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:51
#3
wing
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:51
#4
side
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:52
#5
face
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:52
#6
head
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:53
#7
right midleg
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:54
#8
right midtibia
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:55
#9
right hindleg
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:55
#10
right hindtibia
Posted by skrylten on 05-09-2019 19:56
#11
hind coxae
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 05-09-2019 23:37
#12
Why albipuncta?
Halters - dark; t2 with ad; vien M curved forward at apex = Hydrotaea dentipes group.
Posted by skrylten on 06-09-2019 11:22
#13
Thanks for correcting me Nikita !
Why albipuncta?
If you do stupid things like me and read halteres but look at the calypters...
It annoys me how often I get it wrong even if I have decent images of the features in the keys :@
It feels like my failure rate increases exponentially with the number of couplets in the key :|
If I key it again in "The Muscidae of central europe" i do get to H. dentipes.
By "Hydrotaea dentipes group" do you mean dentipes in the key should/could be separated into different species ?
/Leif
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-09-2019 14:12
#14
1. Leif, no reason to be upset when you took wrong way in keying. Everybody made and will make it a hell lot of times.
2. Well, females of H. cyrtoneurina and H. anxia may be excluded. H. similis and H. palaestrica - not. However, in 9 cases out of 10 it is H. dentipes.