Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanidae Switzerland -->> Philipomyia aprica

Posted by johanvantbosch on 21-09-2019 10:55
#1
Photographed in Wallis, Switzerland, 5 July 2019. Is it possible to id this individual from these photos?

observation.org/fotonew/1/23343491.jpg

observation.org/fotonew/2/23343492.jpg
Edited by johanvantbosch on 22-09-2019 15:20

Posted by johanvantbosch on 21-09-2019 11:03
#2
I would think it is Tabanus.

Posted by Zeegers on 22-09-2019 15:03
#3
Think again !

Philipomyia aprica, common in the Alps.


Theo

Posted by johanvantbosch on 22-09-2019 15:17
#4
Zeegers wrote:
Think again !

Philipomyia aprica, common in the Alps.


Theo


Thank you, Theo!

I will have a look at that species and see where I went wrong.
Edited by johanvantbosch on 22-09-2019 15:19