Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Asilidae

Posted by wildrocker on 28-06-2011 15:59
#1
Another Asilidae photographed in Italy, Lombardy, Milan on 28 June 2011
Do you know the ID?
Thanks

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Posted by wildrocker on 29-06-2011 12:33
#2
Anybody knows it?

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 29-06-2011 20:38
#3
I am not sure...But this could a female Machimus cf rusticus.

Posted by wildrocker on 29-06-2011 21:07
#4
Leptogaster wrote:
I am not sure...But this could a female Machimus cf rusticus.

Thanks Leptogaster...A question:
What's usually useful approximately to identify the genera?
Thorax, abdomen, head, wings?
Do you know any book or web resource that explain the "dichotomous keys" to identify Diptera in general, or in specific genera?
Thanks

Posted by Dysmachus on 19-07-2011 20:12
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There is a key to the Asilidae subfamilies on http://www.geller...subfam.htm and the Central European genera on http://www.robber...rwort.html. The last revision of European Asilidae is published by Engel (1930) in German language. Afterwards several hundred papers are published yet. Except of a catalogue, a revised key is lacking. Yours
Edited by Dysmachus on 19-07-2011 20:13