Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bombylidae

Posted by Susan R Walter on 01-07-2006 22:25
#1

Some help please with this one, taken 1 June 2006 at Etang de la Mer Rouge, in la Brenne, central France. 15mm, very velvety.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-07-2006 23:43
#2

Hemipenthes morio?

Posted by Susan R Walter on 04-07-2006 13:26
#3

Thank you Paul. Now that you have given me a name I have checked some French images on the web and my pic looks exactly the same. I assume H morio is the most common of the species found in France (and it is presumably not H maura as the wing shading is a different pattern).

Posted by David Gibbs on 04-07-2006 13:38
#4

yes definitely H. morio