Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Anthomyia or Limnophora? -> Anthomyia cf. procellaris

Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 00:52
#1
Can a species be defined here?
Only this one photo available, mid June on a meadow in Vienna.

inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/79709501/large.jpeg
Edited by Carnifex on 16-01-2023 16:31

Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-01-2021 13:11
#2
Hello Lorin,

Anthomyia cf. procellaris male. If I remember correctly, there are one or two very rare lookalikes, but I don't know, which species.

Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 13:45
#3
Thanks Jürgen.
20min apart but the same spot:
inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/79711289/large.jpeg

Maybe the same individual
Edited by Carnifex on 16-01-2023 16:31

Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-01-2021 13:55
#4
Carnifex wrote:
Maybe the same individual


There are dozens of them over the warmer season every day here on a railing (only about 5 m long) over a small creek. But only males. I can't remember having ever seen a single female at that location.

https://insektenf...post415697

Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 15:46
#5
Within the pluvialis-complex, the rarer species closely resembling A. procellaris should be A. imbrida and A. bazini.

Posted by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 16:25
#6
In this paper dealing with the pluvialis-complex, only for *A. procellaris* it is stated that the three post-sutural black spots can be confluent, while in the others the spots should be clearly separated.

https://www.resea...thomyiidae
Edited by Carnifex on 07-01-2021 16:25