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Hi,
This Tachinid is frequently met in our arboretum, and I suppose I should know it from last year - is it Linnaemyia tessellans again?
Many thanks for patient help, Sundew

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Linnaemyia looks right (densely hairy eyes, projecting mouth edge & yellow basicosta) but we'll have to wait for Theo for the rest :)

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It's Linnaemyia and I don't do Mediterrean Linnaemyia from picture (unless something obvious as vulpina).


Theo

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Dear Theo, though we have mediterranean temperatures at the moment, Berlin is surely no mediterranean locality :D, and in the last year you identified all my Linnaemyia pictures as L. tessellans, so would you please look again?
Many thanks indeed, Sundew

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These pics are much better than those from the last year, taken with the small camera, and I have much more of them - which detail is important for species determination? I could check for such a pic.
(Meanwhile it is hotter than in the Mediterranean, and we had no rain for a month - it's terribly dry, and the plants look like brown hay.)
Cordially, Sundew

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Right.

If it is from Brandenburg or nearby, it should be L. tessellata.
Good point

To be sure, I would need to see the whitish hairs on sternite 2, rather difficult to get on a picture.



Theo