[Syrphidae] Re: Cheilosia with strange things growing on face

Jeroen van Steenis j.van.steenis at xmsnet.nl
Wed Aug 12 08:45:36 BST 2020


Cool looking! It could have been a very nice undescribed species though.....

Maybe you could do DNA sampling on it and see which orchid species it is.

Jeroen

Op wo 12 aug. 2020 om 09:38 schreef muscapaul <muscapaul at gmail.com>:

> It probably visited an orchid and picked up pollinaria.
>
> Paul
>
> Op wo 12 aug. 2020 09:36 schreef Sander Bot <botsander at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Last June I collected a few Cheilosia in the Alps with weird things
>> growing on their face. Something like a fungus or so. Have a look at a
>> picture of an unfortunate lady Cheilosia rhynchops affected by it:
>> https://observation.org/observation/198290575/.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea what this is?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Sander
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