Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 5mm with red eyes
Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 04:52
#1
Found this small fly on wild parsnip - 5mm. Any ideas?
Thanks!
~Bruce
BTW, if anyone is interested in giant ichneumon wasps, I have some great photos of the females ovipositing at:
http://www.cirrus...sa_fem.htm
Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 04:53
#2
and..
Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 04:54
#3
and
Posted by ChrisR on 14-06-2005 13:29
#4
Definitely Tachinidae... almost certainly genus Gymnosoma... but can't be 100% sure beyond that - i am no expert on the north America fauna :)
Nice photos though :D
Posted by Bruce Marlin on 16-06-2005 00:12
#5
I'm always happy with a genus!
Posted by Zeegers on 18-06-2005 21:49
#6
It's not Gymnosoma, but the closely allied genus Gymnoclytia.
Differences with Gymnosoma:
Abdomen less global (flatter), with distinct sutures between tergites, scutellum with apical.
Also sprach Monty Wood in the Manual of Nearctic Diptera (the new world specialist).
Gymnoclytia is also strictly new world.
Theo Zeegers
Posted by Bruce Marlin on 17-07-2005 05:41
#7
Thank you, Theo.
I had forgotten this entry until now! (July)