 Beautiful nematocera
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Posted on 10-09-2007 20:40
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Hi everybody Any help with the identification of this nematocera? It was found between brambles in a Quercus ilex gallery of a dried brook in Girona province (NE Spain). Thanks in advance Miquel |
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Posted on 10-09-2007 20:58
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Ptychopteridae |
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Posted on 13-02-2008 20:33
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Hi I have recuperated this old thread. At the time I posted it, I accepted that, as proposed, this might be a Ptychopterid. However, this week I got some literature on Nematocera and after checking the vein pattern and confronting Tipulidae, I think this is a female of Dictenidia bimaculata. I am attaching two additional pictures of this same species, one of the same female from a different angle and one of a male found some months later upstream. What is most surprising to me is the convergence of appearance between Dictenidia and Ptychoptera. I think that the third picture I am attaching could actually belong to a female of Ptychoptera contaminata found at about 1000 m altitude in a deciduos forest of Montseny mountain, Barcelona, Spain. Could anyone confirm these identifications? Thanks a lot in advance Miquel |
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Posted on 13-02-2008 20:34
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The Dictenidia male |
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Posted on 13-02-2008 20:34
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The female of Ptychoptera contaminata |
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Posted on 13-02-2008 21:26
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Tipulidae for the images except the last one is ok I think.
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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but don't see the image in the post.
