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 Mycetophilidae --> Megophthalmidia crassicornis!
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| Tina S |
Posted on 30-06-2022 18:02
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 Member Location: Germany Posts: 139 Joined: 15.01.16 |
Hello, in passed may for a few days these gnats flew through my room (I have no idea where they came from). Can someone help with their identification? Data: Germany, Lower Saxony, Rodenberg, 90 m, in the house, 31 May 2022. Best wishes, Tina. Tina S attached the following image:  [79.86Kb] Edited by Tina S on 06-07-2022 15:12 |
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| Tina S |
Posted on 30-06-2022 18:03
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 139 Joined: 15.01.16 |
This dead specimen I found three weeks later at the window. This one still had all its legs.
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| Tina S |
Posted on 30-06-2022 18:04
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 139 Joined: 15.01.16 |
Wing venation, distortion-free.
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| Walther Gritsch |
Posted on 01-07-2022 20:40
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 Member Location: Copenhagen Posts: 289 Joined: 31.01.09 |
Megophthalmidia crassicornis,exactly. That's what it is. One of its kind in Europe. Mainland Europe, anyway.
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| Tina S |
Posted on 02-07-2022 19:26
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 139 Joined: 15.01.16 |
Thanks very much, Walther! Where does this species breed? |
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| Walther Gritsch |
Posted on 03-07-2022 12:01
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Member Location: Copenhagen Posts: 289 Joined: 31.01.09 |
Its biology seems to be unknown ... By the way, good old Landrock considered it to be very rare in Germany, i.e. about the first half of the twentieth century.
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| Tina S |
Posted on 06-07-2022 15:10
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 139 Joined: 15.01.16 |
Thanks, Walther. Back then, I had a vase with Apiaceae in it, but couldn't find any exuviae. Of another origin I couldn't think; then, they must have come in through the window(?). Nevertheless, it seemed as if they had hatched within my room, somehow. In other rooms of the house I saw none of them, neither in the garden... Thank you also for the information on its rarity in Germany; interesting. The species can't be overlooked, it's really conspicuous (that said by a lepidopterologist, not a dipterist). Edited by Tina S on 06-07-2022 15:10 |
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