Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tyrolean Psilid - Psilosoma? And which?
Posted by Sundew on 08-07-2011 22:46
#1
Hi,
This fly really puzzles me. It looks like a Psilid, and the gallery offers only
Psilosoma audouini with a certain resemblance. I saw my fly in the Tyrolean Oetztal above Niederthai (ca. 1.700 m), and the Fauna Europaea says the species is absent in Austria. So what is it? I urgently need help!
Many thanks, Sundew
Edited by Sundew on 11-07-2011 11:15
Posted by Sundew on 10-07-2011 23:54
#2
Dear friends: this fly need help!!
Posted by Sundew on 11-07-2011 11:13
#3
Meanwhile I found out that the hind femur of
P. audouini is differently shaped (or my photos do not show the right angle - ?). So
P. lefebvrei might be another option, but the photos in the gallery show a non-striped thorax. Stephane seems to be acquainted with that taxon, he might confirm the genus at least... May be, there is variation in colour? And also
P. lefebvrei is, according to Fauna Europaea, absent in Austria. So this mystery has not been unravelled yet!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-07-2011 12:28
#4
I think it is
adouini. The males have swollen and curved hind femora, the females do not.
Posted by Sundew on 11-07-2011 15:34
#5
Aha - this pointed-ass fly is a female (if I only could tell the sexes apart)! So if
P. audouini, I had made a first record for Austria?! Shall I get a medal? :)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-07-2011 16:07
#6
Dunno about the medal, but if you are quick enough you can perhaps do a publication after you have verified it is a first records.