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Black Trachinid, 13-15 mm, during the first weeks of August in my garden. Does it has a name? And what's it's victum?

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Another picture:

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Tachina grossa - but where in the world is your garden? :) Victims (aka. hosts ;)) are large, hairy lepidopteran larvae :)

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My garden is in the Netherlands (koudekerke, Walcheren):(
I thought the T. grossa is much bigger: about 22-25 mm?

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Chris, I have to disagree. Neither general habit, nor, for example, long 3-d antennae and short 2-nd segment is for Tachina grossa, or Tachina sp.
Nikita

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I'd say Eurithia sp.

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Hi Nikita - Yeah you are right, my mistake - a bad ID on my part ... never try to cook dinner AND identify flies at the same time!! ;)

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Does this picture make it clear?
Which host is used by the Eurithia sp. ?

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Hi Wilde.
1. Eurithia's hosts are varios Lepidoptera.
2. So far I know only one way ID surely Tachinidae by image - it is to wait for Theo;)
Nikita

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I don't think I'd accept many photographic IDs of Eurithia beyond just "Eurithia sp.", especially when the palp colour is not clear and we can't see any of the genitalia :)

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WEll, I agree with Chris that formally spoken the species might not be IDed from these pictures. However, given the fact that they are from Zeeland, I have no doubt whatsoever that this is Eu. anthophila.
Especially the last picture is already very strongly in favour of this conclusion.

So: Eurithia anthophila.


Theo

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Thanks Theo,
I made several photographs, also on others days of August. The flies were very often seen on the umbels of Fennel. Here is another picture of the same fly (August 6th 2006). I hope the name doesn't change.:D

Albert de Wilde

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Here in England my assumption would certainly be anthophila ... until I had the fly under the microscope and could get a 'real' fix on it :)