Portuguese Diptera & Hymenoptera galore!
This weekend I have been mainly sorting over another great batch of tachinids (plus a few interesting Hymenoptera) from Jorge Almeida. There was a mixture of 100+ malaise trapped insects plus a few pinned specialities, such as Cinochira atra, Carcelia tibialis, Clairvillia biguttata, Estheria picta, Peleteria cf. rubescens, Zeuxia zernyi etc.
I have done a preliminary run through the malaise trapped specimens and the species list so far is: Cylindromyia (auriceps, pilipes, pillosa, interrupta, intermedia, bicolor), Siphona sp., Peribaea tibialis (& possibly discicornis), some Gymnosoma sp., Cistogaster mesnili, Prosena siberita, Tachina magnicornis, Peleteria varia, Nemoraea pellucida, Medina luctuosa, Ethilla aemula, Leucostoma anthracinum, Clytiomyia sp. & rather a lot of evanoid Hymenoptera. 🙂
Many thanks to Jorge for all his hard work and generosity! 😀
I think your Cylindromyia males are females and reciprocally.
This tribe has particular ovipositor to lay eggs into bugs.
https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=86047
Regards
You could be right, thanks … I’ll examine them again. As both male & female have these curved processes under the abdomen it is easy to get mixed up when handling lots of them 🙂