Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - perhaps more ID? --> Ectophasia cf. crassipennis

Posted by kuv on 23-07-2024 11:57
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Northern Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Halstenbek near Hamburg, area of tree nursery, edge of an uncultivated field at a flower of Achillea millefolium; 18th of July 2024 (Outside photos: Kuv).
Searching in the Diptera Gallery I think it could be a female of Ectophasia leucoptera. Is that right? Please help to get the ID.
Greeting Kuv

Edited by kuv on 24-07-2024 11:15

Posted by kuv on 23-07-2024 12:03
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2nd picture:

Posted by kuv on 23-07-2024 12:04
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3rd picture:

Posted by kuv on 23-07-2024 12:04
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4th picture:

Posted by eklans on 23-07-2024 17:58
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Hi Kuv, I think it's a female Ectophasia crassipennis.
According to Ceretti (2010): I tachinidi della fauna italiana, E. leucoptera's wing is nearly completely hyaline and the bend of M is a right angle - not bowed like E. crassipennis.

EDIT: to exclude E. oblonga we need a sharp lateral view of the tip of the abdomen:
sternite 7 bent forwards in E. crassipennis, backwards in E. oblonga

Edited by eklans on 23-07-2024 18:07

Posted by kuv on 24-07-2024 11:14
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Hi Eric |t,
thank you very much for help. As I have no better picture of the tip of abdomen it must remain "Ectophasia cf. crassipennis".
Greeings Kuv