Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pale Tachinid (I think)
Posted by Gordon on 26-05-2008 08:31
#1
This rather atractive specimen is from the edge of Lake Kerkini northern Greece where it was nectaring at
Paliuris spina-christs 24-5-08.
Posted by Gordon on 26-05-2008 08:33
#2
Another view
Posted by Gordon on 26-05-2008 08:35
#3
with a long thin tongue.
Posted by Rui Andrade on 26-05-2008 11:09
#4
Maybe Prosena siberita?
Posted by Gordon on 26-05-2008 13:11
#5
It certainly looks a lot like
Prosena siberita, but I have been playing in the gallery and it also looks a like
Fischeria bicolour to me, so I await expert adjudication. They are both known from Greece, but neither are on my list, which would mean I am now just two short of the 100 for Tachinids.
Posted by ChrisR on 26-05-2008 13:31
#6
Looks like
Prosena, if the proboscis isn't angled - but I am confused by the scale - how big is it?
Posted by Gordon on 26-05-2008 16:09
#7
I guess, looking at other flies on the same flowers, such as the Parhelophilus in the Syrphid forum, and photos I have here that it is about 7 to 9 mm long in the body. Sorry I didn't catch it. Blamey and Grey-Wilson say the flowers of P. spina-christi are 3 to 4 mm across, but they look a little folded back here.
Edited by Gordon on 26-05-2008 16:13
Posted by Zeegers on 26-05-2008 16:51
#8
It's Prosena no doubt, given the habitus and proboscis.
Theo
Posted by Gordon on 28-05-2008 09:51
#9
OK vedict accepted, my thanks to Theo, Chris and Rui.
Gordon