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Tachinidae (Minthodes picta)
christoophe
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Hello
Collected in the Alps in August.
I think of Loewia but it corresponds to no species.
I doubt the family nevertheless the subscutellum is present.

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I agree. Looks like Stevia at first sight, but is Tachinidae. Deos not look look like Loewia. Need to think about this.

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Yes it is either an absurd Zeuxia (check the lappets of the posterior thoracic spiracle !) or an interesting Loewia.
In the latter case, might be one of the very rare alpine species.
Very promising !

Collected > 1500 m. ?

Theo
 
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Collected at 1700 m.
 
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I could study a specimen, thank to Christoophe, and we were dead wrong.

It is the male of Minthodes picta (could have fooled me !)
This species usually lacks reddish markings on the abdomen, which makes it pretty difficult to recognize it as Minthoini from picture.
The antenna, of course, did not look like Loewia.

Also a boreo-alpine species and still very interesting.


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In hindsight I should have noticed the reduced number of acrostichals. Our Minthoini rarely have red. One species has a long petiole and was once included in a key to Wagneria because it was so often mistaken for one.
 
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Clearly, next time we will be ready for this species !

Sorry for the Palaearctic focus, my knowledge of Nearctic Tachinidae is - to say it politely - incomplete.

Theo
 
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