Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Yellow Tachinidae
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| Isidro |
Posted on 17-09-2007 12:46
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Yesterday at Sabi?anigo, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Pre-Pyrenees. Between Atlantic and Mediterranean climate. Habitat: prairie dominates by Daucus carota, Eryngium campestre and Conyza sp. Near a small river. Size: 6-7 mm.   If someone need a view of the proboscis, I have a picture with them evaginated. Thanks  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-09-2007 14:10
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very nice photos - especially #1 showing the subscutellum clearly - no doubt it is a tachinid! My guess is either an Eliozeta or Clytiomyia sp. I wish we were having as good a September as you seem to be having in the south. I went out at the weekend and I saw no tachinids and very few interesting flies at all. The countryside in England seems to have decided it is autumn and what few flowers are still alive have few/no flies on them 
Edited by ChrisR on 17-09-2007 14:12 |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 17-09-2007 14:29
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks Chris! Is possible decide which of the two genus suggested is it? I wait Theo... Here is all dry, it haven't rained in the summer, but in the mountain there are some insects as I show here. Edited by Isidro on 17-09-2007 14:30 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-09-2007 14:57
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Theo might know - he has seen a lot more of these in mainland Europe than I have here in England. Here Clytiomyia is very very rare and Eliozeta doesn't exist at all. In the european key the genera are split using the number of katepisternal bristles - under the wing, above the legs. The area is just visible on your last photo but it is too out of focus to count the bristles |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 17-09-2007 16:38
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19293 Joined: 21.07.04 |
It looks like a special male. Pity the thorax is out of focus. Should be Clytiomyia, since none of the Heliozeta species fit. But then, deadendstreet. Theo |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 17-09-2007 18:46
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks Theo! At least I have the genus... do you know the Tachina that I've posted few hours ago? |
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