Posted by dguzman58 on 09-11-2011 15:52
#1
ID to genus? Please? Parque Chicaque, 2400 msn Cloud forest.
Posted by ChrisR on 09-11-2011 16:00
#2
Lovely fly ... but I can't offer even a genus ... it would all be a guess without a specimen, and even then it wouldn't be very confident :)
Posted by John Carr on 09-11-2011 19:59
#3
It reminds me of some North American Tachinini, e.g.
Archytas.
Posted by ChrisR on 09-11-2011 22:39
#4
Yeah, the body is similar to
Archytas but the wings are being held far wider ... the body proportions are all off. It reminds me of many photos on the web that get attributed to "
Scotiptera" but aren't because
Scotiptera has a plumose arista. The body and wing ratio reminds me of
Macromya but the only ones I have here have orange abdomens so it might not be that either
There are too many to choose from in the neotropics and it really *needs* material to be collected because we're all just guessing without a specimen to compare to other collected material. There are some features (like the hind thoracic spiracle) that might determine the Tribe but we can't see those in normal photos.
Edited by ChrisR on 09-11-2011 22:40