Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small attractive Tachinid
Posted by Gordon on 16-05-2008 12:38
#1
This one is from 750 m south facing streamside last week. The body is about 3.5 mm long.
Posted by Gordon on 16-05-2008 12:40
#2
And another view, the images are small because I photographed it without the microscope and it is getting to the camera's limits.
Posted by ChrisR on 16-05-2008 12:42
#3
Lovely fly - but my first thought is "does it have a subscutellum?" It could be a rhinophorid, with such an exagerated petiole :)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 16-05-2008 12:58
#4
Or something like
Rondania fasciata (Tachinidae)...
Edited by Stephane Lebrun on 16-05-2008 13:15
Posted by ChrisR on 16-05-2008 13:22
#5
Ahhhh, yes - now you say that it might be ... it is a very rare species here in the UK and the only ones I have seen were not as bright in colour. But that might be because they were old, faded specimens in museums :D
Posted by Gordon on 16-05-2008 13:26
#6
It has a subscutellum, I should have mentioned that, so it looks like Stephan gets the prize, which is of course free accomodation at lake Kerkini when you come here to collect flies.
Thanks to you both
Gordon
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 16-05-2008 13:39
#7
Brighter also because it's a female I think. :)