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Posted by Christophe Grangier on 06-05-2006 17:39

Hello

I've found that fly in a wood April 8th 2006 (Is?re, france). I suppose it's a Tachinid. Good guess?

Thanks
Christophe

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-05-2006 19:55

Could it be Bactromyia aurulenta?
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1563#post_6338

Posted by Zeegers on 07-05-2006 09:22

A Tachinid al right.

Looks like Phryno vetula to me.
Rather common spring species in deciduous forests

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Christophe Grangier on 07-05-2006 10:52

Thank you to all of you.
I previously read the dialogue between Black, Chris Raper and Theo about Bactromyia... The specimen of Chris has black bands on its abdomen, not mine. So I prefer Phryno vetula guess. Is its host known?
best regards
Christophe

Edited by Christophe Grangier on 07-05-2006 10:53

Posted by ChrisR on 07-05-2006 18:10

Hi Christophe, I have summarised a few sources on UK tachinids - have a look here:

http://tachinidae...brcno=9001

Edited by ChrisR on 07-05-2006 18:11

Posted by Christophe Grangier on 08-05-2006 09:47

Hi Chris

I had a visit to your site and I just say "Waooooh!".
Thank you for providing so much informations to the amateur naturalist that I am.

Posted by ChrisR on 08-05-2006 11:07

Hi Christophe, I am glad you like it :) I started it for myself because I was too lazy to look in all the literature every time I caught an interesting fly, so I put the literature in one place! ;) When I started the UK recording scheme with Matt Smith it became our site and it has grown from there.

My current project is to find pictures of all the species both in the wild and as specimens so that, once someone has identified something using a key, they can double-check using the photo. B)

Happy hunting!