Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Conopidae?
Posted by lynkos on 25-08-2006 18:46
#1
Photographed today in hot, sandy habitat near Rome, Italy, length about 8 mm, very restless, never stayed still for a second :@. Could it be a Conopidae?
Thanks, Sarah.
Posted by Zeegers on 25-08-2006 19:06
#2
Looks like it, but you had your doubts, apperently, and with good reason !
The wing venation is different and the puffy head is missing.
This is a Tachinidae of the subfamily Phasiinae (the 'peculiar-and-pretty Tachinidae with hosts in Hemiptera):
Cylindromyia rufipes.
Beautiful fly and beautiful pictures.
Thanks
Theo Zeegers
Posted by lynkos on 25-08-2006 19:16
#3
Almost in real time, thanks Theo. In fact, now I look at it with different eyes, it does look very Tachinidae-ish :o, Sarah.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 25-08-2006 19:18
#4
Tachinidae fly mimics a conopidae fly??? Why?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 25-08-2006 21:41
#5
The tachind is not mimicking a conopid - the tachinid and conopids both mimic wasps. ;)
Stunning pics, Sarah! B)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 26-08-2006 00:19
#6
Tony Irwin wrote:
The tachind is not mimicking a conopid - the tachinid and conopids both mimic wasps. ;)
Stunning pics, Sarah! B)
Very interesting tachinid. I would have mistaken, at first, on ID.
Posted by lynkos on 26-08-2006 10:45
#7
Thanks to you all, Sarah.