Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae -> Rhamphina sp.

Posted by paqui on 12-09-2010 20:27
#1

By Francisco Rodríguez, reduced from http://www.biodiv...22677.html

- S Spain, Almería
- bushes, next to a water course, 213m
- 6-may'10

Thabnks again

Edited by paqui on 13-09-2010 23:03

Posted by ChrisR on 12-09-2010 22:53
#2

Any idea of size? If I can see a projecting proboscis then it could only be Aphria or Rhamphina, I think ... and my Rhamphina pedemontana doesn't have a white face like that, but it looks too big to be Aphria too.

Edited by ChrisR on 12-09-2010 23:03

Posted by paqui on 13-09-2010 18:21
#3

He answered it had a similar size as Tachina but can´t be more exact
Thanks :)

Posted by ChrisR on 13-09-2010 19:29
#4

Wow - very interesting - but one for Theo I think :) My guess would be Rhamphina but I have only seen them once, in the Pyrennes :)

Posted by Zeegers on 13-09-2010 20:56
#5

Looks like Rhamphina to me, there is more than one species (two, I believe)


Theo

Posted by paqui on 13-09-2010 23:01
#6

Thank you all very much again :)

Posted by ChrisR on 13-09-2010 23:38
#7

If Theo is happy with Rhamphina then if this has a strong petiolate R5 then it has to be R.pedemontanum but it would be nice to have a few more angles to be sure :) For instance, it appears to have a complete row of median marginals on T3 but this would be a feature of the other species P.rectirostris, which has a closed R5.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2011 18:56
#8

This is R. rectirostris - right prementum . In pedemontana , prementum is strongly curved (see mine thread to confront http://diptera.in...d_id=41063).

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 22-08-2011 19:00