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| Isidro |
Posted on 18-06-2007 07:31
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Last satudray, Sabi?anigo, Aragon, Spain (Pre-pyrenees), rock land with shrubs (Thymus and Genista scorpius above all). Big size (the same as a Calliphora: 9-10 mm) Some ideas?  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-06-2007 11:46
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I don't recognise this species but it should be easily keyable if you have a specimen? The mouth edge is strongly protruding; it has strong bristles and T3 and T4 don't have median discal bristles. If you took a specimen then I'd be happy to key it for you - otherwise we'd need a much clearer series of photos with more angles showing the face, legs and wings clearly  |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 18-06-2007 15:13
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Ooooh, sorry. I don't have the specimen and aslo I don't have more pictures. I made more photos but all of them are very bad, with too much light, and the fly was not seen in the picture. I deleted this pictures. Maybe by comparation on collection specimens somebody can tell, at least, the genus? |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-06-2007 16:01
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Theo might know from sight, if there are enough distinctive features visible in the photo. Those feature I mentioned above are pretty unusual but I haven't seen enough tachinids from mainland Europe to know all the genera there - so I'd have to use one of the keys, which would need confirmation of about 20 tiny features. You're welcome to try comparing it to specimens in a collection but it would be a big job and you'd have to know exactly which features to look for |
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| crex |
Posted on 18-06-2007 17:37
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Other features (if they count for anything I don't know) - the appendix on M - the antenna (bicolor, long second part) - coloration of the abdomen. Haven't seen a sturdy Tachinid with brown or almost red abdomen. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-06-2007 17:49
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, the abdomen does seem a bit reddish, which might mean it is something like Peleteria... but I am waiting for Theo |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 18-06-2007 18:44
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks, Chris and Crex!!! Well, if is possible identify it with the few featres that appears in the pictures, I wait more suggestions. And if it is not possible,... well, at least you tried it. At the moment I let it as Peletria? sp. Less is nothing. I'm relatively new in this forum and completely begginer in Diptera, a like more the beetles and more the photography that the taxonomy. It seems that Theo is a Tachinid expert. We will wait him Thanks again |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 18-06-2007 20:49
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
It certainly seems to have the Peleteria bristles.
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 15-07-2007 12:12
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Now than Theo is here.... can be IDed to species level?? |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 15-07-2007 16:07
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
It's a Peleteria for sure, well done. Can't give a species name, need to see features on the ventral side. There are many species in the Mediterrean region. Theo |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 15-07-2007 18:20
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
OK... thanks |
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