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Tachinid ?
LordV	#1 Posted on 09-04-2007 20:10
Member Location: Posts: 671 Joined: 06.09.05	Fly about 9mm long taken today South Coast UK. Any ideas ? Thanks Brian V.


eguzki	#2 Posted on 09-04-2007 20:22
Member Location: Perkáta, Hungary Posts: 1140 Joined: 12.10.06	I would say it's Sarcophagidae rather.


jorgemotalmeida	#3 Posted on 09-04-2007 20:41
Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06	sarcophagidae


Zeegers	#4 Posted on 10-04-2007 17:36
Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18538 Joined: 21.07.04	Indeed. It's a Amobia. 2-3 species around, only distinguishable by the male genitalia. This is a male, so did you collect it ? Otherwise, it will remain Amobia spec., I'm afraid. Theo Zeegers


jorgemotalmeida	#5 Posted on 10-04-2007 17:43
Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06	fooled by red traffic eyes. and for abdomen. It was so convincent to be a Sarcophagidae fly! How can we distinguish here apart Sarcophagidae/Tachinidae? Subscutellum is not easily visible... * Theo, please see email. Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-04-2007 17:55


crex	#6 Posted on 10-04-2007 18:51
Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06	jorgemotalmeida wrote: fooled by red traffic eyes. and for abdomen. It was so convincent to be a Sarcophagidae fly! How can we distinguish here apart Sarcophagidae/Tachinidae? Subscutellum is not easily visible... * Theo, please see email. As far as I can tell - Amobia belongs to Sarcophagidae!


jorgemotalmeida	#7 Posted on 10-04-2007 20:19
Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06	lol forget... I confirmed that now. I don?t know why, but when I read zeegers message, I read really in some way the word Tachinidae.


Zeegers	#8 Posted on 11-04-2007 17:30
Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18538 Joined: 21.07.04	My 'indeed' referred to 'Sarcophagidae' So Jorge did get the trafficlight-red eyes splendidly ! Theo


jorgemotalmeida	#9 Posted on 11-04-2007 23:40
Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06	lol. as it was hard.. the hard is really to separate some Rhinophoridae and Tachinidae flies..