Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown 4 mm fly -> Anthomyiidae -> Delia radicum/floralis/planipalpis group

Posted by pat_der2003 on 12-04-2010 05:22
#6

Many thanks to all of you !! :)

Tony Irwin wrote:
Looks rather like Leucophora - an anthomyiid that specialises in parasitising mining bees by taking over their nests. It was probably waiting for a suitable host to appear.


that was my thoughts ! ;) i photographed at the same sandy place and same time Andrenidae and a cuckoo bee !!

javanerkelens wrote:
I think the frontal vitta is to broad for a Leucophora..
Maybe a Botanophila, but not sure about it..
Do you have another photo..?

Joke


i put those two other views : a 3/4 of the face and a lateral shot.

i hope it could help !:)

Edited by pat_der2003 on 12-04-2010 05:22