Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ID => Sturmia bella
Posted by tristram on 21-09-2012 21:28
#1
Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-09-21.
I think this is
Sturmia bella. Am I correct?
Edited by tristram on 21-09-2012 22:58
Posted by tristram on 21-09-2012 21:29
#2
A slightly different angle:
Posted by ChrisR on 21-09-2012 21:49
#3
Yes - well done :) Quite a distinctive tachinid.
Posted by tristram on 21-09-2012 22:10
#4
It helps that the first photo is almost identical to one by Tim Worfolk in the gallery:
http://www.dipter...to_id=4510
Posted by ChrisR on 22-09-2012 00:07
#5
Yes, they are quite consistent :D Bare eyes; very pale face with no protruding mouth edge; no median discals and only a few median marginals on T1-3 - then lots of marginals on T4-5.
Posted by blowave on 22-09-2012 11:51
#6
ChrisR wrote:
Yes, they are quite consistent. Bare eyes; very pale face with no protruding mouth edge; no median discals and only a few median marginals on T1-3 - then lots of marginals on T4-5.
I thought Sturmia bella had a brown tip to the scutellum, all those I have do. Can this be absent? A photo in the gallery showing this ..
http://www.dipter...to_id=7397
Janet
Posted by ChrisR on 22-09-2012 12:52
#7
The scutellum colour is a little variable but I suspect that if we had this as a specimen it would be clearer.