Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Kleptoparasitic Anthomyidae?

Posted by conopid on 22-05-2010 10:49
#1

Yesterday I watched a medium sized grey fly (with quite silvery frons and parafacia) closely following a bee Andrena barbilabris, It shadowed the bee very closely, the way some Sarcophagidae do. I have taken the specimen and it is clearly an Anthomyidae. Can anyone advise what genus this might be?

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 22-05-2010 10:53
#2

Try with Leucophora...

Posted by conopid on 22-05-2010 16:18
#3

Many thanks Stephan, that certainly looks like the fly in question.