Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Limoniid ID
Posted by Carnifex on 19-08-2022 17:57
#1
ID possible here? I find the broad black middle segment of the front leg especially striking, but could not find a match
Park in Vienna, mid April
Posted by Jozef Obona on 19-08-2022 18:56
#2
e.g. Limonia splendens
Posted by Carnifex on 19-08-2022 20:49
#3
Thanks Josef, does it mean, here it might be
splendens, but could be another species as well?
Posted by Jozef Obona on 20-08-2022 06:52
#4
with a specimen (ideally a male) under a microscope I would be sure...
yes, there are similar species, for example - Limonia pannonica.
Posted by Carnifex on 20-08-2022 14:56
#5
L. maculipennis would be another species with similar wing and leg pattern, but it seems to be not occurring that far south-east (absent from Austria, Switzerland, Czechia...).
Comparing the wing patterns (Kolcsar et al 2017),
L. pannonnica lacks a small spot distally as well as a darkened wing tip - both features I see at my specimen - so
L. splendens has become even more likely for me