Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Also my first Tachinid 2008
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-03-2008 18:54
#1
Hello!
I have seen the pictures of
Kirbya moerens here, but although similar in colouration, my fly looks someway different. Can it be, that all previous
Kirbya were males, and mine is a female? (Then also my sightings in former years were males.)
Today resting on stone at forest (northwest Germany) at 8-10 ?C, size of a normal house fly (8-10 mm).
Slightly larger picture:
http://www.foto-u...bigger.jpg
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-03-2008 18:55
#2
Another picture.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 08-03-2008 19:33
#3
today I didn't see the amazing tachinid I saw last weekend. :(
More colder today. :(
Tomorrow it will rain. :S
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-03-2008 20:24
#4
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
Tomorrow it will rain. :S
Here, too... :(
Posted by Zeegers on 08-03-2008 21:19
#5
Nope, it is the male of Campylochaeta praecox.
Kirbya is a more southern species (up to Switzerland / southern Germany perhaps).
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-03-2008 21:27
#6
Hello, Theo!
Zeegers wrote:
Nope, it is the male of Campylochaeta praecox.
Many thanks! That is a new species for me... :)
Kirbya is a more southern species (up to Switzerland / southern Germany perhaps).
So, the flies in this older thread are not
Kirbya moerens, as you suggested at that time?
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Posted by Zeegers on 09-03-2008 09:41
#7
I don't see the problem, that fly is very different (topcel clearly stalked), so it still seems Kirbya to me.
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 09-03-2008 16:04
#8
Hello, Theo!
Zeegers wrote:
I don't see the problem
I wondered, because you wrote, that
Kirbya moerens is a southern species (up to Switzerland/maybe southern Germany). But those photos were also taken here in northwest Germany (edge of Teutoburger Wald).
Posted by Zeegers on 10-03-2008 17:51
#9
Ok, I see the 'problem', need to check the literature.
Anyway, those are 100 % 2 different species
Theo