Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Calliphoridae - Rhinia sp., Zambia
Posted by Will van Niekerk on 19-04-2013 23:28
#1
Same general area as
Rhinia posted previously - http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=44421&highlight=Rhinia&pid=194270#post_194270 - not conclusively identified, but looks very close to
R. apicalis.
Location: Chongwe District, Lusaka, Zambia.
Habitat: Thicket of (non-native) mexican daisies, in recently burnt orchard.
Date: 27/02/2013
Size: small, probably 6mm or thereabouts.
Edited by Will van Niekerk on 26-04-2013 09:52
Posted by Will van Niekerk on 19-04-2013 23:29
#2
From above.
Posted by Will van Niekerk on 19-04-2013 23:30
#3
front
Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-04-2013 08:25
#4
I would say
Rhinia, too. Dunno any species, though.
Posted by Will van Niekerk on 22-04-2013 22:52
#5
Thanks Paul - I'll remove the question mark from the title, and from the file.
Nice to know that I was heading in the right direction...
Posted by Will van Niekerk on 26-04-2013 09:52
#6
So, according to the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, there are only three species of
Rhinia it could be - the rest are either oriental, island races or recently described from Morocco (belletiella, which therefore could, in theory, be more widespread).
So, out of
Rhinia apicalis,
Rhinia coxendix and
Rhinia nigricornis, can anyone eliminate?