Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Trichopoda sp ?
Posted by lema on 08-06-2006 13:45
#1
Trichopoda on kaki tree (Diospyros kaki)
I found this (belive it's newcomer from USA) Trichopoda fly last autmn. Istria - not so far from Italy - they introduced Trichopoda for pest (Pentatomid bug-Nezara viridula) control.
If i'm right (that it is newcomer from Italy in Slovenia) then it must be T.pennipes but it looks somehow different.
lm
Posted by lema on 08-06-2006 13:49
#2
and the same fly 2nd
Posted by Robert Nash on 08-06-2006 14:00
#3
Looks like T. pennipes (a reference to those fringed hind tibia pennipes means wing-footed) to me and i think it is. Right area too. But you're right it's not quite like some of the other pics we have seen. Take look at Cornell's site for a nice account.
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/parasitoids/trichopoda_pennipes.html
Posted by lema on 08-06-2006 15:09
#4
Thank you, Robert.
Yes I already saw this site. Biological control is a sphere of activity Ir17;m interesting in, mainly for my garden sake. (pic on the site is not quite the same as this one, but I agree that it looks like T. pennipes):)
Regards
lm
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 08-06-2006 15:44
#5
What a nice animal!