Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Antipalus varipes, Asilidae, Hungary, June 2007
Posted by Xespok on 08-11-2007 20:15
#1
Another male Neoitamus? This time alive.
Edited by Xespok on 15-11-2007 20:42
Posted by Xespok on 08-11-2007 20:16
#2
Another view.
Posted by Xespok on 08-11-2007 20:17
#3
This one seems to have a darker moustache.
Posted by Danny Wolff on 08-11-2007 23:09
#4
Hello,
a female Antipalus. A detail of the front leg (first image) would probably tell me more about the exact species.
Greetings, Danny Wolff
Posted by Xespok on 08-11-2007 23:51
#5
Another image. Is this sufficiently detailed?
Posted by Xespok on 09-11-2007 00:28
#6
An even closer view. Please write a short note, how you determine the species if there are some good field characters.
Posted by Danny Wolff on 10-11-2007 19:30
#7
Hello,
this is Antipalus varipes, the most frequent Antipalus - species in Europe. In his checklist of the Hungarian Asilidae Majer also mentions Antipalus similis as probably occuring in Hungary but not recorded from this state.
I don't know A. similis by own practice, but using the key and the desriptions by Moucha and Hradsk? 1966 it is clear that your images show A. varipes. Some of the characters are: length of the metatarsus, the occurence or lacking of bristles on the front femur, the colour of the tibiae and tarsi, but I think it would be wise to check these characters under a stereomicroskop. What if you are recording A. similis for Hungary for the first time without having a voucher specimen?
Greetings, Danny Wolff
Posted by Xespok on 15-11-2007 20:40
#8
I'll check if I have this specimen.