Thread subject: Diptera.info :: To-day's contribution. Nematocera ?

Posted by Dimitri Geystor on 06-03-2005 19:14
#1

Hello,

With this one I am completely lost..

Thank you, Dimitri

www.diptera.info/forim/5-0221-1.jpg

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 06-03-2005 20:38
#2

Hello Dimitri,
I think you will find it in the family Tipulidae, and the genus is Nephrotoma! Sometimes they are called Tiger Craneflies beacause of the yellow markings!
Maybe somebody else will be able to tell you the species as well!
Greetings

Posted by Dimitri Geystor on 06-03-2005 22:21
#3

Thanks indeed, Gerald.

Dimitri

Posted by Xespok on 07-03-2005 02:40
#4

Hi Dimitri,

I also think that this is Tipulidae. It could be Nephrotoma sp, or some closely related genus. I enclose two similar flies from Japan.

This one is likely to be: Dictenidia pictipennis
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0221-2.jpg

Posted by Xespok on 07-03-2005 02:42
#5

And this one is supposed to be: Ptychoptera japonica
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0221-3.jpg

Posted by Xespok on 07-03-2005 02:42
#6

Nephrotoma sp usually look like this:
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0221-4.jpg

Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-03-2005 08:08
#7

I think the first image posted is a species of Ctenophora, possible the female of C. ornata. It is not a species of Nephrotoma.

Posted by Zeegers on 07-03-2005 20:35
#8

I agree with Paul

The first one is in Ctenophora, sometimes referred to as Flabellifera.
The last one is Ptychoptera.

Theo Zeegers