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Tachinidae with tumorous looking face (5 pics)
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Hi all!

Without being sure, I would interpret this fly as a Tachina (correction or more exact ID very welcome, of course)... but what does it have in its face? Frown Doesn't look like being normal to me.

Approx. 13-16 mm

30.7.2022; Czechia; South Bohemia; Prachatice; coordinates 49.01272, 13.98735
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Ptilinum : https://en.wikipe...i/Ptilinum
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Thanks tristram!

So this should mean that the fly is either extremely fresh (to me at least, it doesn't look like that, since the wings are already damaged a bit), or much more likely, that the ptilinum failed to collapse after use, right?

Are there any known pathologic reasons for that, or does it sometimes simply happen accidentally.
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It is most likely fairly fresh out of the pupa.
 
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Ok, thanks. So it takes much longer to collapse than I imagined. Never seen this before.
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