Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tolmerus cingulatus?

Posted by nomad on 12-08-2018 17:37
#1

Found these on dry heathland, Berkshire, England, I believe the males may be Tolmerus cingulatus, not too sure about the female seen in the same site, perhaps atricapillus .

i.imgur.com/QPJ7aKX.jpg i.imgur.com/AsRYOdM.jpg i.imgur.com/25mmE0H.jpg

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 12-08-2018 22:27
#2

I would agree with the two males, the female is looks more like T. atricapillus...... especially the dark mystax and the shape of the ovipositor (in cingulatus less flattened, less pointy and more straight (hard to describe properly))

Posted by nomad on 12-08-2018 23:15
#3

Many thanks Reinoud. Regards Peter.