Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Laphria flava or vulpina -> Laphria flava
#1
Ukraine, Rivne region, on April 29.
Is it possible to determine a species of these photos?
#2
Dark hair on the hips shows that the picture is Laphria flava?
#3
I would agree. The last picture seems to be a very fresh specimen.....
Posted by
libor on 07-05-2018 08:54
#4
Jaromir Bosak do not accept L. vulpina, he includes it as color form of L. flava. Your opinion is different, Reinoud?
Libor
#5
Laphria looked very sluggish, so he gave himself a photo from different angles.
Slowness maybe due to the fact that the Laphria was just born ?
#6
So it is all the same creature??? Then the first pictures must have been taken later, when creature got its colour.
@Libor: I have no experience with L. vulpina, but Jaromir might be right. On the other hand....sometimes different species look very much alike and sometimes there is rather much intraspecific variation.
#7
Yes, it's one person. The difference between pictures is only a few minutes.
Other shows can be found on Flickr.