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 Dolichopodidae "Having a nice time" ©
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 14-08-2012 23:39
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Any idea which pair are "Having a nice time" ©. Found at Burn of Valayre yesterday.
Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [156.61Kb] Edited by Roger Thomason on 14-08-2012 23:41 |
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| Igor Grichanov |
Posted on 15-08-2012 07:25
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 Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 1781 Joined: 17.08.06 |
This couple is remarkable in that the male and the female antennae belong to different "species" - Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallén, 1823) [=Sympycnus annulipes (Meigen, 1824)] and Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925.
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 16-08-2012 19:49
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Igor Grichanov wrote: This couple is remarkable in that the male and the female antennae belong to different "species" - Sympycnus pulicarius (Fallén, 1823) [=Sympycnus annulipes (Meigen, 1824)] and Sympycnus desoutteri Parent, 1925. Thanks for that Igor..how does that work out then..??? Offspring be called S.puloutteri  Should have gone to SPECSAVERS comes to mind. |
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| Marc Pollet |
Posted on 18-08-2012 00:53
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Member Location: Welle (Denderleeuw) Posts: 161 Joined: 02.06.05 |
Roger, Igor, I think suggesting that this is a copulation between two species on a picture that does not really shows the species' diagnostic features is confusing, at least. It would be good to add which characters you used to distinguish both. As far as I am concerned, both species (S. pulicarius and S. desoutteri) are most likely conspecific (I am currently studying the type series). With kind regards, Marc |
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