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Tachina fera male
luisjgarcia
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Posted on 02-06-2008 07:37
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Taken image 21/04/08 in Perdiguera, Aragon, North-east of Spain.
In a zone with typical vegetation of margins of ways and zones near to fields
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A tachinid - Tachinia sp. - Theo might be able to say more but they are a more complex genus in the south of Europe Wink
 
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I think that Tachina fera because she has red legs
 
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It a boy !
And yes, the tarsi (!) are reddish and the vertex is narrow without proclinate setae, so indeed it is a male T. fera.


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