Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bibio Hortulanus?

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 13-04-2007 15:37
#1
hello flyforum,

I was wondering if this fly is Bibio Hortulanus?
maiby someone can confirm this?

http://forum.waarneming.nl/forum/index.php?showtopic=21675&st=0&#entry172204
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 18-04-2007 10:19

Posted by Zeegers on 14-04-2007 08:13
#2
Very nice!

This is not B. hortulanus, but the female of B. anglicus, a rare early spring species, mostly confined in NL to the region with the larger rivers. As is this locality....

Theo Zeegers

Posted by ChrisR on 14-04-2007 14:36
#3
Interesting comment about B.anglicus, which I have always thought was quite common - but the 2 sites that I catch it regularly are within 1km of the river Thames Smile

Posted by Laurens van der Leij on 14-04-2007 19:02
#4
It may be common in England but not in the Netherlands. In 2005 the species was first reported from Germany by Jens-Hermann Stucke and me.