Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Here I am again
Posted by lynkos on 06-09-2005 21:21
#1
Here I am again with another two Diptera from near Rome in Italy. This time I have no idea of the family :(.
Thanks for any guidance, Sarah
Posted by lynkos on 09-09-2005 10:08
#2
No-one can help even just approximately? :( Sarah
Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-09-2005 11:09
#3
The top one should be a bee fly (Bombyliidae), for the bottom one I withhold any opinion for the moment other than that is must be one of the orthorrhaphous Brachycera. Mediterranean Diptera always have tricky surprises for us Northerners. :p
Posted by lynkos on 09-09-2005 12:11
#4
Thanks Paul. I'm glad we manage to surprise you sometimes :p. I will now go away on my own somewhere and figure out what an orthorrhaphous Brachycera might be! Sarah
Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-09-2005 12:26
#5
lynkos wrote:
I will now go away on my own somewhere and figure out what an orthorrhaphous Brachycera might be! Sarah
Sorry for the specialist loingo. Orthorrhaphous Brachycera are the families like Asilidae, Rhagionidae, Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Bombyliidae, Empdidae and related.
Posted by lynkos on 09-09-2005 13:32
#6
Thanks... not an expression I think I'll be using much in everyday conversation, but it's just as well to know just in case ;), Sarah
Posted by Zeegers on 09-09-2005 14:34
#7
Second one looks like a Bombylidae as well.
But no standard one !
Theo Zeegers
Posted by lynkos on 09-09-2005 18:09
#8
I'd hate to be too predicatable! Sarah
Posted by Paul Beuk on 09-09-2005 19:57
#9
You should not have said that! :p
Posted by David Gibbs on 19-06-2006 18:15
#10
Thw top one is a species of the genus
Usia, i am keen to get specimens of this genus so if you have any do please contact me.
the second one is very likely
Cyllenia rustica but really need more views to be sure