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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Which Chrysops =?> Chrysops caecutiens

Posted by Cortmeyer on 04-06-2020 10:30

Hello,

yesterday 3.June, I get bite from this horseflie, but I don#t know, is it C. caecutiens, C. relictus or another
Chrysops?

It was in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in my garden, and the insect was flying around my head, before it found a place to bite.
It was around 1 cm.

Greetings
Chris

Edited by Cortmeyer on 04-06-2020 21:54

Posted by Cortmeyer on 04-06-2020 10:32

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Greetings Chris

Posted by Zeegers on 04-06-2020 18:56

Ch. caecutiens.
Try the dutch field guide (free pdf on www.eis-naturalis.nl)

Theo

Posted by Cortmeyer on 04-06-2020 21:53

Thanks, Theo,
also for the link, so I try to understand "holländisch"

Greetings
Chris

Posted by Zeegers on 05-06-2020 08:05

Germans started learning, or at least reading, dutch starting the historic 1981 release of “Zweefvliegen van Noordwest Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Beneluxlanden” by Volkert van der Goot. So it is a tradition.

But don’t despair ! Andre and myself are working on an English version.

Theo

Posted by Cortmeyer on 06-06-2020 08:53