Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small Cylindromyia (Tachinidae) (27.08.24) --> Cylindromyia brassicaria (f)

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-08-2024 20:55
#1

Hello,

only about 7 mm, on shrubs next to a large clearing in mixed forest (northwest Germany).

Edited by Juergen Peters on 31-08-2024 00:12

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-08-2024 20:55
#2

Pic #2

Posted by Zeegers on 30-08-2024 21:59
#3

Really ? Except for the size, looks like a straightforward female C. Brassicaria

Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-08-2024 00:12
#4

Zeegers wrote:
Really ? Except for the size, looks like a straightforward female C. Brassicaria

Thanks, Theo! I hope, some day I will find a different Cylindromyia species... This year I often find very small specimens of insects. For example the last individuals of the common Hypena proboscidalis (Lepidoptera) were only half the size as usual...

Posted by Zeegers on 31-08-2024 08:54
#5

Brassicaria is the only central European species with three pairs of marginals on scutellum, basals included.

Theo