Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Clinohelea spec. (NL) > Mallochohelea inermis
Posted by blaauw7 on 31-05-2020 18:59
#1
31 may 2020, skylight, mid Netherlands. Clinohelea species?
Gr Dick
Edited by blaauw7 on 07-07-2020 13:28
Posted by John Carr on 31-05-2020 21:25
#2
The legs look wrong for
Clinohelea. Quoting Grogan and Wirth (1975): "Femora slender, occasionally with up to four spines; 4th tarsomere of at least mid and hind legs deeply bilobed, each lobe ending in a stout blunt spine and smaller spines; fore 5th tarsomere greatly swollen in both sexes; fore claws equal, mid and hind very unequal in female; all claws equal in male."
https://scholarsa...35/iss3/4/
Posted by blaauw7 on 01-06-2020 07:28
#3
Thanks John. More towards a Palpomyia species?
Gr Dick
Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-06-2020 12:34
#4
Quite possible. Pass it on and I will have a try.
Posted by blaauw7 on 01-06-2020 13:23
#5
Saved the specimen.
Gr Dick
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-07-2020 20:49
#6
The ventral spines on the last tarsal segments rule out both
Clinohelea and
Palpomyia. I think it is
Mallochohelea inermis, female.
Posted by blaauw7 on 07-07-2020 13:28
#7
Perfect Paul! Nice work! Thanks.
Gr Dick