Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Rhamphina? -> Rhamphina pedemontana
Posted by frbel1 on 09-05-2020 16:26
#1
Hello,
Is it
Rhamphina pedemontana? This species seems rather variable, at least in terms of color, but the proboscis puzzles me, comparing it with pinned specimens (2 here and 1 at tachinidae.eu) : shouldn't its curve make it point forwards?
Thanks in advance.
Frédéric
(11mm, 1700m, France, Southern Alps, July 2019)
Edited by frbel1 on 26-06-2020 14:04
Posted by John Carr on 09-05-2020 16:48
#2
frbel1 wrote:
Hello,
Is it Rhamphina pedemontana? This species seems rather variable, at least in terms of color, but the proboscis puzzles me, comparing it with pinned specimens (2 here and 1 at tachinidae.eu) : shouldn't its curve make it point forwards?
Thanks in advance.
Frédéric
(11mm, 1700m, France, Southern Alps, July 2019)
The proboscis of some American Tachinidae curves in a different direction in dried specimens.
Posted by Zeegers on 10-05-2020 08:01
#3
Yes, the proboscis is flexible to some degree.
Moreover, you have two species of Rhamphina, need to check that.
Theo
Posted by Zeegers on 11-05-2020 16:21
#4
The way I understand Herting (1971), is that the haustellum is flexible in pedemontana and rigid in rectirostris. Anyhow, this is Rh. pedemontana.
Theo
Posted by frbel1 on 12-05-2020 08:52
#5
Thank you for your answers.