Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid fly --> Ernestia puparum
Posted by LakeSide on 17-04-2008 23:01
#1
Found in Holland
Edited by LakeSide on 19-04-2008 16:10
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 18-04-2008 09:11
#2
Welcome on this forum. It is indeed a tachinid fly, I think a male of
Ernestia puparum.
Posted by LakeSide on 18-04-2008 09:39
#3
Thank you Stephane.
I was searching as well. I does look a lot like Ernestia puparum.
Could it also be Winthemia quadripustulata?
Posted by Zeegers on 18-04-2008 14:35
#4
NO, Stephane is quite right.
Were was the picture taken ? This fly is quite rare in The Netherlands.
Theo
Posted by LakeSide on 18-04-2008 20:35
#5
Cool. This was taken in Sleeuwijk, Noord-Brabant on the edge of the town. It was sitting on a tree in a small park where people walk their dogs. There was also a small area of water closeby.
Thank you both for the help!
Edited by LakeSide on 19-04-2008 00:45
Posted by Zeegers on 19-04-2008 14:23
#6
E. puparum is restricted to the southern part of the Netherlands so far. Only very old record north of the mains rivers.
So it might be moving north, as many others
Theo
Posted by LakeSide on 19-04-2008 16:09
#7
Well I live pretty far to the south. Sleeuwijk is just below Gorinchem in Noord-Brabant. Just below the Merwede/Maas. About 40km from the Belgium border.
Jaco
Edited by LakeSide on 19-04-2008 16:10
Posted by Zeegers on 19-04-2008 19:42
#8
Thanks, Jaco, I'm dutch, so I know were Sleeuwijk is.
Theo