Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Hippoboscidae ID please
Posted by Eugene K on 05-10-2023 23:22
#1
2023_10_04 Russia, St.Petersburg. Help id, please.
Edited by Eugene K on 05-10-2023 23:23
Posted by Jozef Obona on 06-10-2023 08:48
#2
Pseudolynchia canariensis
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-10-2023 17:12
#3
Mount it for ZIN collection, please.
Posted by Zeegers on 06-10-2023 17:13
#4
That is extremely far north. Are you sure about the locality ?
Theo
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-10-2023 17:48
#5
Theo, it is far north, but also far west. Winter temperature in Nizhny Novgorod (where it was recorded) is colder than in Petersburg.
Posted by Zeegers on 06-10-2023 19:24
#6
OK, thanks, but we still don't have it in NL :(
Th.
Posted by John Carr on 06-10-2023 20:27
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Zeegers wrote:
OK, thanks, but we still don't have it in NL :(
Th.
Are your cities too clean to support a pigeon population?
I recall reading your House Sparrows were in decline. In America they remain abundant urban pests.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 07-10-2023 11:02
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John, our cities are still full of pigeons. It is not because of lack of sanitary, but because a lot of people, mostly old ones which specially feed them.
As for sparrows you are partly right, P. domesticus became less common in Moscow, it is partly replaced by P. montanus which was uncommon 40 years ago when I was schoolboy. In the northern cities like Murmansk there is only P. domesticus, in small towns around Moscow still more P. domesticus than P. montanus. I suppose that it is a result of heating. If you visit Madagascar or Thailand, you find only P. montanus.
Posted by Eugene K on 03-11-2023 23:23
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Josef, Nikita, Siegers, John - thank you!
Nikita, sorry, but the fly flew away just in the process of photographing. I will collect the next specimen of this species for your museum - although perhaps not immediately. I must say, I rarely see this species.