Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Siphona cristata?
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| shar |
Posted on 22-05-2006 19:40
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Dear All, One more fly for definite ID. I am trying to find out myself, but sometimes I think I have the right ID and than.... Thank you. greetings, Shar shar attached the following image:  [72Kb] |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 22-05-2006 19:50
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Hi Shar. It is not Tachinidae, Muscidae or Anthomyiidae. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| shar |
Posted on 22-05-2006 20:13
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
So, it is Siphona? The fly looks like a fly of an other picture I saw And he or she is blowing a bubble |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 22-05-2006 20:21
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Currently, Siphona is genus in Tachinidae family, as far as I know. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-05-2006 21:14
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hi Shar, Nikita is correct - Siphona are family Tachinidae and this fly is definitely not Tachinidae ... and Siphona have a long, hinged proboscis, which this fly doesn't have. But I don't know what it is - that will have to come from another person  |
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