Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lauxaniidae
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-11-2006 03:23
#1
Hello!
Also at the light yesterday night (Ostwestfalen/Germany) this
Calliopum aeneum. Right? Thanks for confirmation or correction!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-11-2006 09:09
#2
Calliopum, yes, but
aeneum is stretching it a little with the amount of detail visible. From the present angles it would not be possible to distinguish it from
C. simillimum, at least.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-11-2006 09:55
#3
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
Calliopum, yes, but aeneum is stretching it a little with the amount of detail visible. From the present angles it would not be possible to distinguish it from C. simillimum, at least.
Would a lateral angle be better? These flies are frequent at the light now. Maybe I get new chance one of the next nights. Have taken new pics yesterday, too (together with one or two other Lauxaniids - but those I leave for tomorrow ;-)), but all from above.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-11-2006 13:39
#4
It could help. Though I must say, if the thorax is really as blackish as it appears to be in the picture, it might well be
C. geniculatum. If it is frequent, maybe you should collect a few specimens.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-11-2006 19:28
#5
Hello, Paul!
Paul Beuk wrote:
It could help. Though I must say, if the thorax is really as blackish as it appears to be in the picture, it might well be C. geniculatum. If it is frequent, maybe you should collect a few specimens.
Thanks! Up to now I never collected any insects (except two or three beetles and true bugs for an entomologist I know).
Posted by rvanderweele on 26-11-2006 21:00
#6
Funny, today I was walking outside, saw so many flowers, many Eristales and Scatophagidae. The weather was more like the end of February.
Then I had to think about the Calliopum spec., which I once saw on November 1st in Budapest. When I noticed it thougt that this will be the last Lauxaniidae of the year. Now a Calliopum photographed in the end of November!
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-11-2006 22:33
#7
Hello!
rvanderweele wrote:
the last Lauxaniidae of the year. Now a Calliopum photographed in the end of November!
There were two or three other Lauxaniids at the light, too, yesterday (will post them later probably).