Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 grey Tachinid or Sarcophagid?
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| Sundew |
Posted on 31-07-2008 22:35
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, Though I often mistook a Sarcophagid for a Tachinid, this one, to me, had a certain Tachinid-ish expression in the face... (Don't laugh!) The abdomen is also not really chequered. However, I don't recognize a subscutellum, and the antennae are a bit small compared to the Tachinid portraits in my collection. So once more I am uncertain about the family of a flower visitor. Please help again! Many thanks, Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [141.3Kb] Edited by Sundew on 31-07-2008 22:38 |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 01-08-2008 00:10
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7337 Joined: 19.11.04 |
I'd say trust your first instincts - facial "expressions" are very important, even in flies!  I think it's a tachinid too, but it's too late (past my bedtime) to say why. 
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-08-2008 08:38
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, I'd say it's a tachinid too - a goniini perhaps but it's a species we don't have here in the UK so it will have to wait for Theo  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 01-08-2008 09:56
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19286 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The ocellars are reclinate, a big clue, and there are erect preapical scutellars, so near Gonia it must be: Spallanzania Theo |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 01-08-2008 11:19
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Great - so I wasn't wrong with the "Tachinid-ish look"! I'm glad to beocme acquainted with Spallanzania. Many thanks, Sundew |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-08-2008 11:23
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I wish I could become acquainted with Spallanzania but I guess the world will have to warm up considerably before they reach us  |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 01-08-2008 11:30
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
So about next year...? Berlin is enormously warm and sunny at the moment (around 30?C for a long period), and the flies are very fast. Photoshooting at noon is thus difficult. |
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