Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Gymnocheta sp.

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 04-07-2005 21:10
#1
Found this large (10mm) tachinid buzzing around in the underbrush 6-29, near Chicago IL USA. Never seen one before or since. Anyone familiar with N. American tachinids? Thanks!
~Bruce
Edited by Bruce Marlin on 29-07-2005 19:15

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 04-07-2005 21:12
#2
Image:
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0472-1.jpg

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 17-07-2005 04:43
#3
Surely someone has an idea for a genus on this lovely fly?

Posted by ChrisR on 20-07-2005 17:02
#4
Hi Bruce - well i will go as far as to say it is a tachinid! :) But North American stuff is way out of my field of expertise. Jim O'Hara in Canada might be able to help - have you tried him?

Chris

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 22-07-2005 13:38
#5
I had not written Jim, but I will. Thanks for that suggestion!
-Bruce

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 29-07-2005 19:15
#6
I've word from Jim O'Hara this is a female tachinid, Gymnocheta sp.