Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beast from Serra da Estrela - Zeuxia sicardi (not zernyi)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 14:46
#1
Dear friends
This tachinid has puzzled me. Dunno even the genus of this one. Medium size, spotted in the same place as the Acrocera... 1500 m in this Sunday.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 17-07-2010 10:11
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 14:49
#2
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 14:53
#3
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 14:56
#4
another..
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 14:58
#5
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 15:01
#6
another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 15:03
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another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 15:07
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another...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 15:11
#9
the antennae are extremely reduced and arista is soft hairy...
Posted by ChrisR on 22-07-2009 15:25
#10
Superficially looks like
Eriothrix but the antennae are tiny and the petiole too long. The name that is rattling around in my brain AND coincidentally the one that pops out in Tschorsnig's software key is ...
Zeuxia :) I don't know the species in your part of the world though :)
Posted by Zeegers on 22-07-2009 17:29
#11
Zeuxia it is, you can see the row of proclinate orbitals.
Z. zernyi is this red, if I remember correctly, need tocheck
Theo
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 22-07-2009 19:13
#12
thanks, Theo. I'm eager for the final confirmation. It seems that we have some Zeuxia!
Posted by Zeegers on 22-07-2009 21:47
#13
Yes, I remembered it correctly: zernyi
Most Zeuxia are very obvious as such:
* appendix to bend
* topcel stalked
* both sexes with row of proclinate orbitals.
however, there are exceptions to all of this !
Theo
Posted by ChrisR on 22-07-2009 22:16
#14
Those tiny antennae + long petiole were quite distinctive :) Nice fly.
Edited by ChrisR on 22-07-2009 22:18
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-07-2009 16:34
#15
Today I was in the same spot and I found over 20 Zeuxia :D They are rather common at 1500 m :D
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 17-07-2010 10:11
#16
Zeuxia sicardi...
I must update the gallery.