Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown (NL) > Achalcus thalhammeri
Posted by
blaauw7 on 05-11-2020 15:58
#1
5 Nov 2020, Sky light, mid Netherlands...…..?
Gr Dick
Edited by
blaauw7 on 18-11-2020 07:39
#3
Achalcus, ?
melanotrichus
Posted by
blaauw7 on 06-11-2020 07:36
#4
Thank you Tristram and Paul. Saved the specimen.
Gr Dick
Edited by
blaauw7 on 08-11-2020 09:15
#5
Achalcus cinereus is better.
#6
That's why I put the '?' in
Posted by
blaauw7 on 08-11-2020 09:14
#7
Thank you!!!
Gr Dick
#8
First suggestion was 'good', second suggestion was 'better', the final result is best''. After examination of the genitalia:
A. thalhammeri (new for the Dutch list).
Posted by
blaauw7 on 18-11-2020 07:31
#9
That's interesting news Paul! Nice. Thanks!
I submitted a photo of this fly to the gallery as Achalcus cinereus (latest photo addition). It must be changed now to A. thalhammeri
Gr Dick
#10
Okay. If you then correct female to male on Waarneming.nl we are all up to speed.
#11
Check the key to Achalcus in Pollet (1996): this is certainly not A. cinereus, but might, indeed, be A. thalhammeri due to its unicolorous thorax. However, you can only achieve 100% certainty by collecting the specimen and compare it to reference collection material.
#12
Marc, the only way I could identify it a
thalhammeri was because I had the actual specimen.
#13
Dear Paul,
Great to hear this. Is this observation to be found in waarneming.nl? Then I could include it, together with the collectors and identifiers, in an upcoming paper on new doli species for the Netherlands? Any chance you might get a male as well, you reckon? Cheers, Marc
Posted by
blaauw7 on 07-03-2021 12:39
#14
Hi Marc,
At the moment I am writing a small article about this new (male) doli species. I found it in my garden last year.
https://waarneming.nl/waarneming/view/202787279
Gr Dick