Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ID
Posted by tristram on 13-09-2011 19:47
#1
From last year. I originally had this down as
Pales pavida based mainly on the bluish colour, but now that doesn't look right to me. It looks too chubby and the scutum is not shiny enough. Could it be a
Eurithia, or something else?
Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2010-07-18.
Posted by tristram on 13-09-2011 19:49
#2
And from a slightly different angle.
Posted by tristram on 14-09-2011 17:40
#3
In particular, I think it resembles this female
Eurithia connivens:
http://www.dipter...oto_id=618.
The blueness might be at least partially an artefact of my camera (but this artefact seems to only affect flies and not beetles and other insects!)
Edited by tristram on 14-09-2011 17:40
Posted by ChrisR on 14-09-2011 23:42
#4
Looks too short in the body to be a
Eurithia, so I doubt it ... but the angle isn't very flattering so I'm not sure. My guess from the shape & colour would be an
Epicampocera succincta ;)
Posted by tristram on 15-09-2011 20:08
#5
Thanks Chris. I'll put it down as a possible
E. succincta then.
Posted by Zeegers on 18-09-2011 20:04
#6
The tip of the scutellum is red, so it can't be Epicampocera.
It is a Pales. Once you've got this idea, you notice the single pair of reclinate orbitals.
Theo
Posted by tristram on 19-09-2011 22:54
#7
Thankyou Theo.
If I remember correctly, it was the red tip to the scutellum that made me think it was
Pales in the first place.
Posted by Zeegers on 20-09-2011 20:12
#8
O, sorry, I missed that sentence in the first post
Good thinking !
Theo