Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Small attractive Tachinid
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| Gordon |
Posted on 16-05-2008 12:38
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 Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
This one is from 750 m south facing streamside last week. The body is about 3.5 mm long.
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| Gordon |
Posted on 16-05-2008 12:40
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
And another view, the images are small because I photographed it without the microscope and it is getting to the camera's limits.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-05-2008 12:42
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Lovely fly - but my first thought is "does it have a subscutellum?" It could be a rhinophorid, with such an exagerated petiole  |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 16-05-2008 12:58
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Or something like Rondania fasciata (Tachinidae)...
Edited by Stephane Lebrun on 16-05-2008 13:15 Stephane. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-05-2008 13:22
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Ahhhh, yes - now you say that it might be ... it is a very rare species here in the UK and the only ones I have seen were not as bright in colour. But that might be because they were old, faded specimens in museums  |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 16-05-2008 13:26
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
It has a subscutellum, I should have mentioned that, so it looks like Stephan gets the prize, which is of course free accomodation at lake Kerkini when you come here to collect flies. Thanks to you both Gordon |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 16-05-2008 13:39
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Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Brighter also because it's a female I think.
Stephane. |
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