Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid (?) from Pietersberg
Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 30-01-2008 21:17
#1
I found this fly in the extreme southern tip of Holland, on the St-Pietersberg (Dutch 'berg' is 'mountain', which is definitely an overstatement, but everything is relative!) 6 May 2007.
It has the looks of a Tachinid. Is it indeed, and is it possible to say which one? Or if not Tachinid, what family is it then?
Medium sized fly. Habitat: St-Pietersberg is the remains of a hill, mined for its chalk. So chalk downland (if you call it so, outside England), with bushes bordering the grass land.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 30-01-2008 21:32
#2
Nyctia halterata (Sarcophagidae) ?
Posted by Susan R Walter on 30-01-2008 21:32
#3
I would guess
Nyctia halterata (Sarcophagidae)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 30-01-2008 21:35
#4
:p
Posted by Cor Zonneveld on 30-01-2008 21:49
#5
Thanks! Bristles alone is not enough for Tachinidhood, obviously...:o
Posted by Zeegers on 31-01-2008 19:49
#6
Nyctia is one of those naughty things,
if you are not familiar with it, you can easily think it is Tachinidae or Rhinophoridae.
If you are familiar, it's dead simple.
Note, however, that the topcel may be open, closed or even distinctly stalked: all Nyctia halterata.
Theo