Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Gymnosoma, Jerusalem
#1
This one might have the prey of a salticid. I know the pin is too big, but I didn't punch it all the way through.
Posted by
Zeegers on 07-11-2007 21:43
#5
This should be Gymnosoma atrosterni Kugler, described from Israel.
Never seen it myself
Theo
#6
Thank you! Quick as always!
Was the species described in 1971? There is only one result in google with the year, so I'm not sure.
I'm glad I showed you something new.
Posted by
Zeegers on 08-11-2007 15:59
#7
WEll, I see it in both databases:
http://www.faunaeur.org/
and
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/diptera/names/searchno.htm
Theo
Posted by
zcuc on 08-11-2007 16:34
#8
GlassOWater,
You were confused by a typo. search for "Gymnosoma acrosterni".
Be note that this tachinid parasites on Acrosternum millieri and Nezara viridula.
#9
Nezara viridula has so many enemies.
The famous Trichopoda pennipes also attacks the hemipteran.
And maybe these: Eutrichopodopsis nitens, Trichopoda giacomellii, T. nigrifrontalis and Ectophasiopsis arcuata - but there is not certainty about these.
#10
Thank you both
I did know it was G. acrosterni, as I just read about Acrosternum in the book hoping that I would find something useful. But I searched for "Gymnosoma acrosterni" only, so I wouldn't get other species from that genus. And that cuts of fauna euroupea.
About the parasites... seeing that N. viridula are pretty easy to get (They are common and grow perfectly on pepper bushes - my father has tonnes of those), and that tachinids are also common... Getting some of them to lay their eggs on the bugs wouldn't be too hard, no?