Posted by
Kahis on 20-06-2007 14:28
#2
Tony Irwin wrote:
The
Dipterists Handbook was written 30 years ago - I'm not sure whether more recent rearing records of (British) acrocerids include other families of spiders. Certainly other families are involved in North America.
The Amateur Entomologists' Society has plans to revise the
Dipterists Handbook, and publish a completely new edition. Although aimed primarily at British Dipterists, there will be plenty of useful up-to-date information for everyone when it appears.
Ooh, what excellent news! Please please please do a updated edition of this gem of a book! I'll buy two
I have the original and it's a perfect introduction to the wonderful (and weird) world of flies.
#3
at the moment
C. gibbus is the only species listed in fauna europa, the other names being synonymised after Emilia Nartshuk went through the Paris collection and labelled all specimens of
Cyrtus as
gibbus, hence treating all forms as one highly variable taxon. However, this has never been officially published as far as I know. The genus is being revised by Christian Kehlmaier and he thinks that there might be two species mixed up here. so the name
gibbus is correct for the European list as it stands but might need to be changed depending on the outcome of his revision.
thanks to Christian for the above information.
#4
believe it or not... but today I .... found another acrocerid!!!
What are the probabilities to find another acrocerid if this sentence (yes, I showed it before..) is true:
"They are cosmopolitan in distribution but rarely observed in most places; the majority of the over 500 species are known from fewer than 10 specimens. They are found most commonly in semi-arid tropical locations."?
This time was above
Rubus sp. leaf. It was my third acrocerid. It is Cyrtus as well. For species... I must see better the legs and proboscis, but probably is the same species (I have collected it..). I found it in the same place and at almost same hour. About 2.30 pm with strong Sun. (finally good weather that arrived today in June solstice!).
Robert I will be in touch soon Jorge Hope it's stopped raining