Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Australian Tachinidae - Senostoma sp
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 01-02-2010 23:29
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Resting on the wall of my sister's house in Canberra, 26 December 2009, about 8mm.
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 01-02-2010 23:30
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Another view.
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| pwalter |
Posted on 01-02-2010 23:51
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I think Jorge will really like this!! And others (incl me) also  Dexiinae? Edited by pwalter on 01-02-2010 23:51 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 01-02-2010 23:52
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And, yes, a tachinid it is.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 02-02-2010 09:59
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Thanks Walter and Paul. The legs are great, aren't they
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 02-02-2010 14:39
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Wow - I have no idea which it is (perhaps Dexiinae) but it would be nice to have a specimen or two to run through the key 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 02-02-2010 18:48
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
No specimen, sorry. This was the only one I saw and we were in a big hurry at the time, so I got into trouble for taking these photos! I will ask my sister to keep an eye out for it and maybe she can capture one (although she's not very fly oriented - more your birds, reptiles and mammals sort). Susan |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 02-02-2010 20:33
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I happen to be the proud owner of a copy of Crosskey's 'Tachinidae of Australia' It clearly belongs to the 'Prosena-subgroup' of the Dexiini. I'd say it is a member of the genus Senostoma, like Prosena but without the proboscis Theo |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 03-02-2010 16:27
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I think that title is incomplete... Maybe... " A Conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of Australia, including Keys to the Supraspecific Taxa and Taxonomic and Host Catalogues" Is this the reference you have got, Theo? Very nice fly, indeed. Another photo of a similar tachinid like this one but, for example, with a conspicuous proboscis: http://www.thebeg...11940.html Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-02-2010 16:38 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 03-02-2010 21:24
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Yes, that is the one, Jorge. Much too much work for me to typ it, thank you The one with a proboscis is another genus Theo |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 03-02-2010 21:44
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Theo - I'm very pleased to have a name for this beastie, thank you.
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 03-02-2010 22:16
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Roger that (ie. thanks Roger Crosskey) Theo |
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