Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Cylindromyia sp. ♂ (intermedia, scapularis)
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 18-05-2025 15:54
#1
Hi, I had to opportunity to take pictures at different angles from this fly, so many characters are visible (Spain: Tarragona province, 17.v.2025). Could it be
Cylindromyia pusilla (female)?
Hind tibia with 1 - 2 pv-bristles
Apical scutellar bristles [EDIT] present.
Abdomen without discal bristles
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 27-05-2025 22:32
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 18-05-2025 15:55
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Posted by rafael_carbonell on 18-05-2025 15:56
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Posted by rafael_carbonell on 18-05-2025 15:57
#4
The last selected picture, more pictures here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/281903383
Posted by Zeegers on 25-05-2025 16:50
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First of all, it is a male, check the elongated pulvilli !
Secondly, there are basal scutellar bristles, so it is in the brassicaria group.
The other features you mentio are often difficult to assess from pics ... ther definitely should be apical scutellars !
Theo
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 25-05-2025 20:57
#6
Thanks Theo for the correction about sex.
But if Hind tibia with 1 - 2 pv-bristles it should not be
brassicaria (using Cerretti 2010a), but i
nterrupta, intermedia, auriceps or
scapularis.
I have seen the apical scutellar bristles.
So it could be
intermedia, auriceps or
scapularis.
If Abdomen without discal bristles is less likely auriceps (=abdomen usually with discal bristles).
Rafael
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 25-05-2025 21:18