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libelloides macaronius


libelloides macaronius
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Copyright: Sami TAMSON (stomsoncy) (95)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-06
Categories: Insects
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-02-11 6:09
Viewed: 462
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Latince (bilimsel) adını bilen varsa lütfen bana yazsın.If anyone knows it's name write me please.
Thanks Marcello Romano and Dietrich Meyer for name.

The owl-fly Libelloides [=Ascalaphus] macaronius
The neuropteran owlfly Libelloides (=Ascalaphus) macaronius (Insecta: Plannipenia) was described in 1763 by the correspondant of Carolus Linnaeus, Johannes Antonius Scopoli, while he was a physician in Slovenian mining town Idria.
Ascalaphus is a daytime predator inhabitating warm, dry, uncultivated meadows from Slovenia to Caucasus, and is famous due to the unique spectral sensitivity of its dorsofrontal eye that ranges only over the ultra-violet part of the solar spectrum. Ascalaphus lives as an adult imago only for approximately two months in the summer; even then, it is actively hunting only under unobscured skies.

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Ciao Sami,
quello che hai fotografato è un Libelloides (=Ascalaphus) macaronius (Insecta: Plannipenia).
Puoi confrontare la tua immagine con questa, su TN.
Saluti,
Marcello

HiSami,
this is a really nice picture of an interesting insect, an Ascalaphid: it resembles Libelloides macaronius, but there are many species in the Mediterranean that I don't know and cannot exclude.

Good luck with your ID!
Best regards
Dietrich

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