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 Microphthalma, Tachinidae
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| Tony T |
Posted on 20-09-2007 02:36
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 Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 663 Joined: 08.02.07 |
19 September 2007, New Brunswick, Canada. Length: 14.5mm Thorax colour and face seem quite different from the few other tachinids I have seen. Tony T attached the following image:  [75.07Kb] Edited by Tony T on 20-09-2007 15:21 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 20-09-2007 03:13
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9295 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Goniinae I'd say. |
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| crex |
Posted on 20-09-2007 07:25
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
If you want to key out the family your self - Manual of Nearctic Diptera, vol 2 (pdf). Just looking at the drawings of the faces it resembles Microphthalma at page 1223.
Edited by crex on 20-09-2007 07:27 |
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| Tony T |
Posted on 20-09-2007 14:11
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Member Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 663 Joined: 08.02.07 |
Ouch! 347 couplets, make one mistake and one could be there for at least a day . But thanks for the ref.Looking at the drawing and some images on Diptera.info HERE it is most surely Microphthalma. Shape of face, small eyes, brown vertical streak beneath eye, and long appendix at bend of vein M all agree with the Eueopean sp. Just 4 spp, in N.A., larvae are parasitoids of white grubs (beetles). Tribe: Dexillini. You are spot-on for the ID. |
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