Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Trixa conspersa (Tachinidae)

Posted by Susan R Walter on 30-06-2008 19:51
#1

I think this fly must be Trixa conspersa? It was photgraphed 8 June 2008 in flower rich grassland in the Somme, northern France (actually in an old WWI trench).

Posted by Susan R Walter on 30-06-2008 20:02
#2

Habitat.

Posted by ChrisR on 30-06-2008 20:45
#3

Yeah, that looks right - shaded rm, tiny antennae and a quite rounded, fat abdomen :)

Nice habitat - did you find much else there?

Posted by Susan R Walter on 16-07-2008 20:31
#4

I wasn't seriously looking - this place is a Canadian war memorial in France, so I didn't feel comfortable collecting. The remains of the trenches, protected from the sheep in ajoining fields, are the most beautiful flowery grassland in early June though. It makes it quite difficult to imagine the scene in 1916.