Thread subject: Diptera.info :: [Hymenoptera] Flashing antenna
Posted by crex on 05-12-2006 00:19
#1
From midwest Sweden 2006-JUL-02. This is not a good photo. My hope is that there are no other species that look and move like this one. It was moving constantly while swaying it's flashy antennas. Which the photo actually shows pretty well.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 05-12-2006 16:53
#2
To turn non-Diptera threads into Diptera I can add Thai Micropezidae who mimic Hymenoptera antennae perpetualy moving thier forelegs.
It is genus Mimegrella. Species level ID in progress...
Posted by Pierre-Nicolas Libert on 05-12-2006 16:58
#3
For me, the first picture is a female Symphyta.
Pierre-Nicolas
Posted by Xespok on 05-12-2006 18:50
#4
Tentrhedinidae and Ichneumonidae can look quite similar, but the Ichneumonidae wasps usually have the white part of the antennae subterminally, while in Tenthredinidae it is terminal.
Posted by crex on 05-12-2006 23:32
#5
Thanx for all help. I think it is a Tenthredinidae species, as suggested. I didn't think this kind of look was common, and looking through a bunch of Tenthredinidae photos there aren't that many showing these antennas, but on the other hand there are a lot of species in this family - 480 in Sweden!
Interesting to see
Mimegrella mimicing long antennas with front legs ...