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 Group mating with Empididae?
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| Sergey Golubev |
Posted on 23-11-2006 15:41
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 Member Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia Posts: 103 Joined: 23.11.06 |
What a mess? What are they doing threesome? I suppose they are Empididae, but what genus and species they belong to? I captured them in winter rye crop last year in Central European Russia during my expedition research. I'll be very grateful if somebody help me to id them. Sergey Golubev Sergey Golubev attached the following image:  [24.28Kb] |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 23-11-2006 17:34
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
Well I can not help you a lot, but let us clarify the situation. The top one is the male who brought a present to the female in the middle to mate. The lowest fly is the present. It is not an Empidid, I leave the identification to others...
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 23-11-2006 20:14
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
The empid will be a species of Empis but I doubt that the picture will allow much further identification. I think the prey is a calyptrate fly, maybe a muscid.
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