Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Coenosia mollicula
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| crex |
Posted on 14-08-2008 22:47
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Location: Midwest Sweden (Dalsland) Date: 2008-JUL-20 This seems to be a pretatory Muscidae. Is it perhaps something like ... Coenosia mollicula or Thricops semicinereus? I don't know if the latter is predatory. crex attached the following image:  [189.63Kb] Edited by crex on 15-08-2008 15:31 |
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| crex |
Posted on 14-08-2008 22:47
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Pic #2
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 14-08-2008 22:58
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Coenosia mollicula would be a good candidate. Thricops are not predators.
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| crex |
Posted on 15-08-2008 07:04
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Thanks Stephane! I'm not sure what you mean by "candidate". Dare I report this as Coenosia mollicula? |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 15-08-2008 10:51
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Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
It is Coenosia mollicula Crex.
Stephane. |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 15-08-2008 11:11
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Are you sure? I'd say it is come other Coenosia, perhaps C. trilineella, but most good characters are not visible. C. mollicula should be paler and have at least partially yellow antennae.
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 15-08-2008 11:48
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Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Hi Jere, I was pretty sure, but of course, now, you make me doubt. I think it's C. mollicula because the lower calypter seems to be not longer than upper one. In combination with yellow abdomen and legs has to be C. mollicula. I had noticed that flagellomere is dark, but females have often more darkened antennae than males, and both first segments can be paler than we think. Stephane. |
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