Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Clinohelea spec. (NL) > Mallochohelea inermis

Posted by blaauw7 on 31-05-2020 17:59
#1

31 may 2020, skylight, mid Netherlands. Clinohelea species?

Gr Dick

Edited by blaauw7 on 07-07-2020 12:28

Posted by John Carr on 31-05-2020 20:25
#2

The legs look wrong for Clinohelea. Quoting Grogan and Wirth (1975): "Femora slender, occasionally with up to four spines; 4th tarsomere of at least mid and hind legs deeply bilobed, each lobe ending in a stout blunt spine and smaller spines; fore 5th tarsomere greatly swollen in both sexes; fore claws equal, mid and hind very unequal in female; all claws equal in male." https://scholarsa...35/iss3/4/

Posted by blaauw7 on 01-06-2020 06:28
#3

Thanks John. More towards a Palpomyia species?

Gr Dick

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-06-2020 11:34
#4

Quite possible. Pass it on and I will have a try.

Posted by blaauw7 on 01-06-2020 12:23
#5

Saved the specimen.

Gr Dick

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-07-2020 19:49
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The ventral spines on the last tarsal segments rule out both Clinohelea and Palpomyia. I think it is Mallochohelea inermis, female.

Posted by blaauw7 on 07-07-2020 12:28
#7

Perfect Paul! Nice work! Thanks.

Gr Dick