Thread subject: Diptera.info :: no idea, even about the family => Villa hottentotta

Posted by Siga on 15-10-2008 09:42
#1
Hallo friends,

I took the attached photo on 2008-09-11 in France, near Lasalle (about 80 km west of Avignon) at about 500m.
Perhaps you can tell me, which fly it is.

Thanks a lot,
Siga
Edited by Siga on 27-02-2017 17:21

Posted by David Gibbs on 15-10-2008 10:08
#2
female Villa of hottentotta group, Bombyliidae.

Posted by Siga on 15-10-2008 11:27
#3
Thanks again (nice name)

Posted by Susan R Walter on 15-10-2008 14:40
#4
Siga wrote:
...(nice name)


It is presumably a comment on their large backside – not very polite I think...