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 Tachinidae- Cundinamarca, Colombia
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| dguzman58 |
Posted on 09-11-2011 15:52
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Member Location: Raleigh, NC USA Posts: 130 Joined: 06.07.11 |
ID to genus? Please? Parque Chicaque, 2400 msn Cloud forest.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-11-2011 16:00
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Lovely fly ... but I can't offer even a genus ... it would all be a guess without a specimen, and even then it wouldn't be very confident 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 09-11-2011 19:59
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 Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10168 Joined: 22.10.10 |
It reminds me of some North American Tachinini, e.g. Archytas. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-11-2011 22:39
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yeah, the body is similar to Archytas but the wings are being held far wider ... the body proportions are all off. It reminds me of many photos on the web that get attributed to "Scotiptera" but aren't because Scotiptera has a plumose arista. The body and wing ratio reminds me of Macromya but the only ones I have here have orange abdomens so it might not be that either There are too many to choose from in the neotropics and it really *needs* material to be collected because we're all just guessing without a specimen to compare to other collected material. There are some features (like the hind thoracic spiracle) that might determine the Tribe but we can't see those in normal photos. Edited by ChrisR on 09-11-2011 22:40 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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