Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Coenosia mollicula
Posted by crex on 14-08-2008 22:47
#1
Location: Midwest Sweden (Dalsland)
Date: 2008-JUL-20
This seems to be a pretatory Muscidae. Is it perhaps something like ...
Coenosia mollicula or
Thricops semicinereus? I don't know if the latter is predatory.
Edited by crex on 15-08-2008 15:31
Posted by crex on 14-08-2008 22:47
#2
Pic #2
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 14-08-2008 22:58
#3
Coenosia mollicula would be a good candidate. Thricops are not predators.
Posted by crex on 15-08-2008 07:04
#4
Thanks Stephane! I'm not sure what you mean by "candidate". Dare I report this as
Coenosia mollicula?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-08-2008 10:51
#5
It is
Coenosia mollicula Crex.B)
Posted by Kahis on 15-08-2008 11:11
#6
Are you sure? I'd say it is come other
Coenosia, perhaps
C. trilineella, but most good characters are not visible.
C. mollicula should be paler and have at least partially yellow antennae.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-08-2008 11:48
#7
Hi Jere, I was pretty sure, but of course, now, you make me doubt.
I think it's
C. mollicula because the lower calypter seems to be not longer than upper one. In combination with yellow abdomen and legs has to be
C. mollicula. I had noticed that flagellomere is dark, but females have often more darkened antennae than males, and both first segments can be paler than we think.