Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanid from Switzerland

Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 10-08-2007 21:51
#1
I saw this lovely Tabanid 18 July in Switzerland, Passo de Lucomagno, approx 1950 m altitude. It's rather smallish species, say some 10 mm. The flowers the fly is on are Saxifraga aizoides. The plants grew in a small and shallow mountain river, in a valley where cattle grazes occasionally.

I couldn't find a match in the gallery, so I would like to ask suggestions for its ID.

Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 10-08-2007 21:52
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second photo

Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 10-08-2007 21:52
#3
third and final photo
Edited by Cor Zonneveld on 10-08-2007 21:53

Posted by Zeegers on 11-08-2007 11:57
#4
Terrific !
Male Glaucops hirsutus, high altitude horsefly in the Alps.

Theo

Posted by Tony T on 11-08-2007 16:15
#5
Superb photos. I have collected females of the very similar Glaucops fratellus in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.